Buckley Point

Buckley Point (53˚56'00" 130˚06'00" E side of Telegraph Passage, S of mouth of Skeena R, SE of Prince Rupert). Capt Cecil William Buckley, VC (1830–1872), was on the BC coast in 1868–69 as cdr of the 17-gun HMS Pylades. He won his VC in 1855 in the Crimean War by twice landing and, under heavy enemy fire, setting important Russian stores ablaze and destroying them. The point was named by RN hydrographer Lt Daniel Pender in 1868. Cecil Point, just N of Pitt I, is also named for him. W...

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