Bilton Island

Bilton Island (51˚27'00" 127˚40'00" S of Ripon I, mouth of Rivers Inlet), Bilton Point (49˚01'00" 124˚52'00" W side of Alberni Inlet, Vancouver I). Tasmania-born Henry Reginald Bilton (1874–1959) was a veteran mariner on the BC coast. He served his apprenticeship aboard the Thermopylae, which was one of the fastest and most famous “clipper” ships in the tea trade before being reduced to transporting rice, coal and lumber between China and the PNW. Bilton worked on coastal steamships...

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