Curlew Island

Curlew Island (48˚50'00" 123˚14'00" Off E side of Mayne I, Gulf Is), Curlew Point (51˚28'00" 127˚45'00" NW end of Ironside I, Schooner Retreat, N entrance to Rivers Inlet), Curlew Rock (54˚27'00" 130˚25'00" S side of Big Bay, Tsimpsean Peninsula, N of Prince Rupert). HMS Curlew, a 9-gun steam sloop launched at Deptford dockyard in 1854 and broken up in 1865, was stationed in the Mediterranean and off S America but never appeared in BC waters. In 1857, Cdr William Horton, a colleague of BC...

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