Pearce Point

Pearce Point (54˚03'00" 130˚33'00" W entrance to Refuge Bay, NW side of Porcher I, SW of Prince Rupert). Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery under Capt George Vancouver, made a long journey with the ship’s boats in 1793 to examine the region around the mouth of the Skeena R and southern Chatham Sd. Vancouver named this feature Point Pearce but provided no further explanation in his journal about the origin of the name. NZ historian and James Cook expert John Robson has speculated that...

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