Mellersh Point

Mellersh Point (50˚47'00" 124˚57'00" W side of Bute Inlet, S of Bear Bay). Capt George Richards of the survey vessel HMS Hecate named this feature in 1862 after Capt Arthur Mellersh (1812–94), an RN officer who was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin but had never been to the PNW. He served aboard HMS Beagle, 1825–36, as midshipman and then mate and was thus a shipmate of Darwin, who was the Beagle’s naturalist in 1831–36 when the vessel surveyed the coasts of S America and...

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