Chatham Channel


Chatham Channel (50˚35'00" 126˚15'00" NE of E Cracroft I, between Knight Inlet and Call Inlet), Chatham Islands (48˚26'00" 123˚15'00" Off Oak Bay, E of Victoria), Chatham Point (50˚20'00" 125˚26'00" NW end of Discovery Passage, NW of Campbell R). HMS Chatham, the 122-tonne brig that accompanied HMS Discovery on Capt George Vancouver’s 1791–95 expedition to the PNW, was named after the Earl of Chatham (see Chatham Sound), 1st Lord of the Admiralty when Vancouver left England. This...

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