Banks Island

Banks Island (53˚25'00" 130˚10'00" Between Hecate Str and Principe Channel), Banks Reef (50˚05'00" 127˚51'00" S end of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I). Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), one of the most significant men of science of his era, was president of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, from 1778 until his death. He was born in London to a wealthy family, educated at Harrow, Eton and Cambridge, and accompanied Capt James Cook aboard Endeavour on...

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