Harwood Island

Harwood Island (49˚52'00" 124˚39'00" NE side of Str of Georgia, just W of Powell R). Capt George Vancouver named this island after “a benevolent friend and an elegant scholar.” Capt John Walbran suggested that the person in question was RN surgeon Edward Harwood (d 1814), son of the classicist and biblical critic of the same name. He served aboard HMS Providence, 1791–94, under Capt William Bligh, when Bligh was finally able to carry out his long-delayed scheme for transplanting...

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