Graeme Point

Graeme Point (50˚38'00" 127˚10'00" W end of Malcolm I, Broughton Str, NW of Port McNeill). Malcolm I (qv) was named after Adm Sir Pulteney Malcolm of the RN as early as 1846, and the spit at its SW end, where the lighthouse is now located, has long been known as Pulteney Point. In the early 1900s, though, the area was re-surveyed by Cdr Cortland Simpson of HMS Egeria; unaware of the origin of the name Malcolm, he renamed the spit after Graeme Malcolm, a figure in Sir Walter Scott’s “Lady...

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