Rivers Inlet

Rivers Inlet (51˚28'00" 127˚35'00" N of Port Hardy and Smith Sd). Capt George Vancouver named this feature in 1792 after George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers of Strathfieldsaye (1721–1803). Pitt was a Tory MP for many years, an ambassador to Sardinia and Spain, and a lord lt of Hampshire and Dorset. Mt Rivers, N of Cape Caution, is also named for him. His wife, Penelope Atkins, was a celebrated beauty, whom author Horace Walpole praised as “all loveliness within and without” while describing...

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