Bayly Point

Bayly Point (51˚45'00" 128˚01'00" NE entrance to Hakai Passage, S of Bella Bella). William Bayly (1737–1810), a self-taught British astronomer and mathematician, became an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, after first working as a schoolteacher. In 1769 he sailed to Norway with Jeremiah Dixon to observe the transit of Venus. He served as astronomer on Capt James Cook’s second and third voyages of discovery, 1776–80, and his observations were published at London in 1777 and...

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