Icarus Point

Icarus Point (49˚15'00" 124˚02'00" E of Blunden Point, NW of Nanaimo). Named for HMS Icarus, an 8-gun, 880-tonne steam-powered sloop that served on the BC coast under Cdr Ernest Fleet, 1896–98, and Cdr George Knowling, 1898–1902. One of the vessel’s duties in 1896 was to search for and chart the rock that the Pacific Station flagship, HMS Impérieuse, struck in Sept that year in Nanoose Hbr. Icarus, launched in 1885 and decommissioned in 1903, was named after a character in Greek...

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