Mount Parke

Mount Parke (48˚50'24" 123˚17'49" Just E of Village Bay, Mayne I, Gulf Is). RN surveyor Capt George Richards named this feature in 1858 after Lt John Grubb Parke (1827–1900), a topographical engineer, who was chief astronomer and surveyor for the US on the N American Boundary Commission, 1857–61. He was born in Pennsylvania and entered the Corps of Engineers after graduating from the US Military Academy in 1849. Before joining the boundary commission he produced an important 1851 map of...

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