Balcom Inlet

Balcom Inlet (52˚06'00" 131˚01'00" E side of Kunghit I, S of Moresby I, QCI), Balcom Point (50˚01'00" 127˚11'00" E point of Whitely I, Kyuquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Members of Victoria’s Balcom family were pioneers in the W coast sealing and whaling industries. Capt George W Sprott Balcom (1851–1925), of NS, first brought a sealing schooner round Cape Horn to Victoria in 1892. In the course of an eventful career he was arrested by the Russian navy for sealing too close to the...

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