Cockburn Island

Cockburn Island is the name of two islands:

  • Cockburn Island (Antarctica)
  • Cockburn Island (Ontario)

Famous quotes containing the words cockburn and/or island:

    “A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.”
    —Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)

    “If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)