Fame Point

Fame Point (53˚17'00" 132˚42'00" S side of Kano Inlet, SW Graham I, QCI). Capt George Vancouver sailed past here in 1793 and named nearby Hunter Point (qv) after his friend Dr John Hunter, whom he had met at Jamaica while serving in 1782–83 as 4th lt aboard HMS Fame, under Capt George Wilson. The Fame, a 74-gun, 1,420-tonne ship of the line, was built at Deptford in 1759 and participated, just before Vancouver’s transfer, in the Battle of the Isles des Saintes, in which the British won a...

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