Otter Point

Otter Point (48˚21'00" 123˚49'00" N side of Juan de Fuca Str, E of Orveas Bay, SW end of Vancouver I). RN surveying officer Henry Charles Otter (1807–76) was never on the BC coast but gained a reputation (and a promotion) for his Baltic surveys while in command of HMS Alban during the Crimean War. As capt of HMS Firefly, he also destroyed several enemy vessels in the Gulf of Bothnia during the Russian conflict. Otter helped land the western end of the transatlantic telegraph cable at...

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