Mount Geoffrey

Mount Geoffrey (49˚30'55" 124˚41'35" E side of Hornby I, W side of Str of Georgia). The 332-m high point of Hornby I was named in 1860 by Capt George Richards after Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby (1825–95), capt of HMS Tribune on the Pacific Station in 1859–60. Hornby brought a company of Royal Marines to BC from China to maintain order during Britain’s dispute with the US over the San Juan Is. The restraint of senior RN officers, including Hornby, did much to calm tempers during this...

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