Manzanita Cove

Manzanita Cove (54˚45'35" 130˚26'30" E side of Wales I, Portland Inlet, near BC-Alaska boundary). This cove does not commemorate the hairy manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana), a spreading evergreen shrub that only grows S of Campbell R, over 600 km away. Instead, the name refers to a US lighthouse tender called the Manzanita—as do a number of other geographical names on or beside Revillagigedo I in SE Alaska: Manzanita Bay, Manzanita Ck, Manzanita I and Manzanita Lk. The 47-m vessel was...

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