Herald Rock

Herald Rock (50˚43'00" 127˚24'00" W side of Beaver Hbr, Daedalus Passage, NE side of Vancouver I). HMS Herald, an RN survey ship, was on the BC coast in 1846–47, commanded by Capt Henry Kellett. Accompanied by a small brig, HMS Pandora, Kellett made the earliest detailed surveys of Victoria and Esquimalt harbours, Sooke Inlet and Juan de Fuca Str. His presence in the area was partly motivated by an ongoing N American boundary dispute between Britain and the US, which would be settled in...

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