Pulteney Point (50˚38'00" 127˚09'00" SW end of Malcolm I, off NE side of Vancouver I, opposite Port McNeill). After Adm Sir Pulteney Malcolm of the RN. See Malcolm I. In the early 1900s, Cdr Cortland Simpson of HMS Egeria renamed this feature Graeme Point (qv), but the Geographic Board of Canada changed it back to Pulteney Point shortly thereafter, following a complaint by author and mariner John Walbran. A lighthouse was erected on the point in 1905 and staffed until 1913 by Austin Makela,...
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