Owen Bay

Owen Bay (50˚19'12" 125˚13'32" S side of Sonora I, N of Campbell R). In the mid-1860s, Lt Daniel Pender named many features in this area after RN officers who worked in the British hydrographic office under Capt George Richards. Because Evans Bay (qv), Frederick Arm, Frederic Point and Owen Point all commemorate Capt Sir Frederick John Owen Evans, hydrographer of the RN, 1874–84, many writers have concluded that Owen Bay is also named for him. But there is no evidence that this is so....

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