Harriet Harbour

Harriet Harbour (52˚18'00" 131˚13'00" S side of Skincuttle Inlet, SE end of Moresby I, QCI), Harriet Island (52˚18'00" 131˚14'00" Entrance to Harriet Hbr). Named in 1862 by mining engineer Francis Poole after the trading schooner Harriet, under Capt T Coffin, which resupplied him at his exploration camp on Skincuttle Inlet. Poole, who wrote with great enthusiasm about the QCI, had high praise for this site. “A more charming and more useful harbour of the same magnitude does not exist to...

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