Bunsby Islands

Bunsby Islands (50˚06'00" 127˚30'00" E side of Checleset Bay, NW of Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Capt John Bunsby, cdr of the brig Cautious Clara, is a character in Dombey and Son, an 1848 novel by Charles Dickens. According to his friend Capt Edward Cuttle, Bunsby “was beat in his apprenticeship, for three weeks (off and on), about the head with a ring-bolt. And yet a clearer-minded man don’t walk.” During an 1862 survey aboard HMS Hecate, Capt George Richards named several...

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