Christiansen Point

Christiansen Point (52˚14'00" 128˚11'00" SW tip of Chatfield I, N side of Seaforth Channel, just N of Bella Bella). Capt James Christiansen (1840–1927), born in Denmark, arrived at Victoria in 1864 on a Liverpool cargo ship and soon secured a job as mate of Capt William Spring’s trading schooner Surprise. He also worked on the Alert, another trading schooner. In 1868, as skipper of the Surprise, he was one of the first to try a new method of sealing: taking First Nation hunters aboard...

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