Bedford Islands

Bedford Islands (48˚19'00" 123˚36'00" E entrance to Becher Bay, S end of Vancouver I). Historian Capt John Walbran suggests that RN surveyor Capt Henry Kellett may have named this feature in 1846 after Bedford C T Pim, at that time a midshipman aboard Kellett’s survey vessel Herald, because Bedford was already a famous name in hydrographic circles. Two brothers, Rear Adm George A Bedford (1809–69) and Vice Adm Edward J Bedford (1810–87), had been associated with the RN’s surveying...

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