Poison Cove

Poison Cove (52˚54'00" 128˚02'00" Head of Mussel Inlet, E of Sheep Passage and Princess Royal I). Named in 1793 by Capt George Vancouver. It was here that seaman John Carter and other crew members ate tainted mussels for breakfast while surveying Mussel Inlet in two small boats. Several men became ill, and Carter died a few hours later, undoubtedly from paralytic shellfish poisoning. He was buried at Carter Bay (qv). The other sick crewmen drank warm seawater as an emetic and recovered....

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