Plover Point

Plover Point (49˚12'00" 125˚46'00" E side of Meares I, E of Wood Its, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I), Plover Reefs (49˚11'00" 126˚05'00" S side of Brabant Channel, W of Blunden I, Clayoquot Sd). The Plover Reefs were named by Capt George Richards of HMS Hecate in 1861, after HMS Plover, a vessel he knew well. The 215-tonne brig, formerly the Bentinck, had been purchased by the RN as a survey cutter in 1842. It was stationed in the E Indies in 1842–46, under Cdr Richard Collinson, at...

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