Owen Island

Owen Island (Just S of Owen Point), Owen Point (48˚33'00" 124˚30'00" W entrance to Port San Juan, SW side of Vancouver I). Named in 1846 by Capt Henry Kellett of HMS Herald after the prominent RN surveying officer William Fitzwilliam Owen (1774–1857), whom Kellett had served with earlier. Owen explored the Maldive Is in 1806 as cdr of HMS Seaflower, and after being imprisoned by the French at Mauritius in 1808–10, he surveyed Canada’s Great Lks, 1815–16, and the coast of Africa,...

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