Baeria Rocks

Baeria Rocks (48˚57'00" 125˚09'00" Near N end of Imperial Eagle Channel, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). These rocks were originally called the Bird Is during an 1861 Admiralty survey but were renamed by the hydrographic service in 1934 to avoid duplication with other Bird Is. Naturalist and ethnologist Charles Newcombe claimed that Baeria coronaria (now called Lasthenia coronaria), or royal goldfields—an uncommon yellow annual plant more usually found in southern California—was...

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