Pandora Head


Pandora Head (50˚54'00" 126˚53'00" W entrance to Grappler Sd, W of Kinnaird I, N side of E Queen Charlotte Str, N of Port McNeill), Pandora Hill (48˚25'30" 123˚13'41" E end of Discovery I, off Oak Bay and SE end of Vancouver I). Pandora Hill (38 m) was named in 1847 by Lt Cdr James Wood, after his survey vessel Pandora, which was employed in making the first Admiralty charts of the BC coast, 1846–48. The 3-gun, 289-tonne brig, which was launched in 1833, left England in 1845 as tender to...

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