Clitheroe Island

Clitheroe Island (52˚13'00" 127˚51'00" W side of Fisher Channel, NE of Bella Bella). Clitheroe is a town in Lancashire, situated in the Ribble Valley on the S edge of the Yorkshire Dales. It apparently had ancestral associations for the family of BC master mariner and historian John Walbran. However, James King, a great friend of Capt George Vancouver, with whom Vancouver had served on Cook’s third voyage of discovery (see King I and Dean Channel), also had a connection to this town: he was...

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