Fantome Point

Fantome Point (50˚47'00" 126˚55'00" SE end of the Polkinghorne Is, W of Broughton I, NE side of Queen Charlotte Str, NE of Port McNeill). Named about 1865 by Lt Daniel Pender of the Beaver in association with Brig Rk and the Polkinghorne Is (qv). Charles Polkinghorne had been master of the brig Fantome, under Cdr John Gennys, on the Australian Station, 1850–56. The 438-tonne, 
16-gun vessel, launched in 1839, saw service at the Cape of Good Hope, off W Africa and S America, and in the...

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