Palmer Anchorage

Palmer Anchorage (52˚37'00" 128˚45'00" S end of Thistle Passage, SW end of Princess Royal I). Lt Henry Spencer Palmer (1838–93) was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. The son of a British Army officer, he was born at Bangalore, India, and educated at Bath and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He came to BC with the main contingent of men in the Thames City and was a major contributor to the ship’s journal, The Emigrant Soldiers’...

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