Pocock Island

Pocock Island (52˚48'00" 128˚45'00" W side of Laredo Inlet, S side of Princess Royal I). The name was adopted by the hydrographic service in 1928 after W R T Pocock, a resident of Victoria in the 1880s and ’90s. Mt Pocock, on the W side of Douglas Channel, was apparently named after Sub-Lt Charles Ashwell Boteler Pocock (1829–99) of the RN, who was stationed at Esquimalt about 1850 and whose daughter Lena Ashwell became a well-known British actress.

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