Belcher Point

Belcher Point (49˚25'00" 126˚04'00" S side of Shelter Inlet, NE of Flores I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). RN officer Sir Edward Belcher (1799–1877) was born at Halifax, grandson of Jonathan Belcher, who was a lt gov of NS. Edward was assistant surveyor on Frederick Beechey’s Pacific voyages in the 1820s and ’30s. As cdr of HMS Sulphur, he visited and took observations at Nootka Sd in 1837 as part of a six-year assignment to chart the W coasts of N and S America (see Sulphur...

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