Pim Head

Pim Head (48˚22'00" 123˚39'00" S side of Sooke Basin, S end of Vancouver I). This feature was probably named after Rear Adm Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (1826–86), one of the RN’s most extraordinary officers. He was a midshipman on HMS Herald during Capt Henry Kellett’s 1846 survey of S Vancouver I. The nearby Bedford Is (qv) are also named for him, and both names appear on Kellett’s 1848 chart of the area. In 1848–49, Pim joined Capt Thomas Moore and HMS Plover in the search...

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