Albert Head

Albert Head (48˚23'00" 123˚29'00" SW edge of Royal Roads, W of Victoria). Named in 1846 by Capt Henry Kellett of HMS Herald after Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, because the settlement on the other side of the bay, Ft Victoria, had been named for the queen. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–61) was the second son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and married Queen Victoria in 1840. Spanish explorer Manuel Quimper landed at Albert Head in 1790, while making the...

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