Dunns Nook


Dunns Nook (48˚26'27" 123˚27'05" W side of Esquimalt Hbr, S end of Vancouver I). Thomas Russell Dunn was an RN surgeon aboard HMS Fisgard, under Capt John Duntze, on the Pacific Station, 1843–47. By the time he retired, in 1861, he was an inspector-gen of hospitals and fleets (the RN’s second-highest medical rank) and an honorary physician to Queen Victoria. The Nook has been much modified since it was named by Lt Cdr James Wood of HMS Pandora, who surveyed Esquimalt Hbr in 1847, and is...

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