Read Island

Read Island (50˚14'00" 125˚05'00" Between Quadra I and Cortes I, N end of Str of Georgia), Read Point (50˚08'00" 125˚09'00" SW tip of Read I). Capt William Viner Read was a naval assistant at the Admiralty’s hydrographic HQ in England. In 1864, when Capt George Richards was promoted to the position of hydrographer of the navy, Lt Daniel Pender named Read I and a number of other features in the vicinity after subordinate officers in the hydrographic dept. Pender was Richards’s successor...

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