Solander Island Ecological Reserve, Ecological reserve off Vancouver Island, Canada

Solander Island is a 7.7 ha ecological reserve on a treeless island 1.5 km west of Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park, off northwestern Vancouver Island. It is covered in grass and low vegetation, including salmonberry and hairy goldfields (Lasthenia maritima), a plant of special concern in British Columbia. A weather station maintained by Environment Canada stands on the island.

The reserve gained protected status in 1971 and takes its name from Swedish botanist Daniel Carlsson Solander. Before this designation, the island was known by different names reflecting its rocky character.

The island's name honours Daniel Carlsson Solander, the Swedish botanist who sailed with James Cook; it was earlier charted as "Solander Rock" and "Split Rock". Today the reserve is closed to the public, so the seabird colonies are watched from boats rather than from land.

The reserve is closed to the public, so no landing on Solander Island is permitted; the nesting seabird habitat is the reason for the closure. Boats pass offshore, and the island lies 1.5 km west of Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park, so viewing is done from the water at a distance that keeps the colonies undisturbed.

Solander Island has no trees and no land mammals, yet it hosts one of the region's seabird colonies: tufted puffins, Leach's storm petrels, Cassin's auklets, pelagic cormorants, glaucous-winged gulls and pigeon guillemots all nest here. The reserve is closed to the public for that reason, so the birds are seen from a boat offshore.