Nangwai Islands

Nangwai Islands (52˚24'00" 131˚37'00" Off N entrance to Gowgaia Bay, SW side of Moresby I, QCI), Nangwai Rock (52˚24'00" 131˚36'00" Just SE of Nangwai Is). US fur trader Joseph Ingraham explored this area in 1791 and named the southernmost island after Ebenezer Dorr, the supercargo or owner’s representative aboard the Hope, Ingraham’s vessel. The passage between the islands he named Port Perkins after the Hope’s co-owner, Boston importer Thomas Perkins, whose specialty was trade with...

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