Bute Inlet

Bute Inlet (50˚21'00" 125˚06'00" Between Toba Inlet and Loughborough Inlet, NE of Campbell R). Capt George Vancouver named this feature in 1792 after John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–92), a Scottish nobleman and British PM, 1762–63. He was a close associate of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his son, the future King George III, who later turned against him. Bute was keener on botany than politics; he wrote about British plants and was an important patron of literature and art. Mt Bute...

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