Compton Island

Compton Island (50˚35'00" 126˚41'00" S of Swanson I, Blackfish Sd, SE end of Queen Charlotte Str), Compton Point (50˚53'00" 126˚53'00" NW entrance to Wells Passage, NE Queen Charlotte Str). Pym Nevins Compton (1838–79) was born in Essex, England, and came to Victoria in 1859 as purser on the HBC ship Labouchere. He was aboard this vessel when it was seized (and later released) by a Tlingit group on an 1862 trading voyage to Alaska. He was later stationed at Ft Simpson and by 1865 was in...

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