Saturna is the eastermost of the Gulf Islands. It draws its name from the Spanish naval vessel Santa Saturnia, a ship in which Spanish explorers sailed throughout the Strait of Georgia in 1791.1
Today, Saturna is considered a rather remote Gulf Island, with minimal population, and a large part of its land and shores protected as part
of the Gulf Island National Park Reserve; its Sencot'en—Coast Salish—name is Teketsen,
which means long nose.2
1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 527.