Goodridge Islands

Goodridge Islands (48˚22'00" 123˚39'00" SE Sooke Basin, S end of Vancouver I), Goodridge Peninsula (48˚23'00" 123˚39'00" N side of Sooke Basin). John Octavius Goodridge (c 1810–65) was the RN surgeon aboard HMS Herald, under Capt Henry Kellett, who surveyed these waters in 1846. He had been assistant surgeon on HMS Starling on the E Indies Station before coming to BC, and he later served with Kellett and the Herald in the Arctic, where they assisted in the futile search for missing...

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