Paul Island is covered with spruce trees and small plants, except on the hilltops. Mount Pownal (56°28'N., 61°26'W.), 398m high, which rises in about the middle of the S part of the island, is a convenient mark on which to take bearings from seaward. Ford Harbor (56°28'N., 61°11'W.) (World Port Index No. 1270) is a sheltered bay in the E end of Paul Island. The bay, entered about 2 miles NW of the N end of False Start Island, is about 1.2 miles wide at its entrance and extends 2.5 miles WSW. The main part of the bay has depths of 15.5 to 53m, except near the shore where the bottom shelves steeply. Least depths of 7.3m and 13m lie 1.6 miles ENE and 1.1 miles NW of Ford Harbor Light.

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