Cuttle Islets


Cuttle Islets (50˚06'00" 127˚36'00" Entrance to Ououkinsh Inlet, Checleset Bay, S of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I). One-armed Capt Edward Cuttle is a comic character in the 1848 novel Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. He is a great admirer of Capt Jack Bunsby, the oracular master of Cautious Clara, and a friend to Walter Gay, nephew of instrument maker Solomon Gills. During an 1862 survey of this area aboard HMS Hecate, Capt George Richards named several features after aspects of...

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