Hoskins Islets

Hoskins Islets (52˚32'00" 131˚33'00" NE of Hoskins Point), Hoskins Point (52˚32'00" 131˚34'00" E entrance to Haswell Bay, Juan Perez Sd, E of Moresby I, QCI). John Box Hoskins (1768–1824) was the ship’s clerk and owners’ representative (or supercargo) aboard the Columbia Rediviva on its second fur-trading voyage to the PNW, 1790–93. The young man was a ward of the Columbia’s principal investor, Joseph Barrell. The ship’s first voyage had not been a financial success, and...

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