Marshall Island

Marshall Island (52˚06'00" 130˚58'00" Keeweenah Bay, E side of Kunghit I, QCI). The hydrographic service adopted this name in 1962 in association with nearby Prevost Point. Cdr James Prevost had been carrying out a survey of Houston Stewart Channel in HMS Virago in 1853 when he was relieved by Cdr Edward Marshall (d 1862), who completed the job and then took the Virago to Russia, where it was part of the Anglo-French squadron that attacked Petropavlovsk in 1854 during the Crimean War....

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