Rodd Point

Rodd Point (48˚26'00" 123˚27'00" W side of Esquimalt Hbr near entrance, just W of Victoria). John Rashleigh Rodd (1816–92) was 1st lt of HMS Fisgard, under Capt John Duntze, and served on the Pacific Station in 1843–47, during which time the Fisgard was one of the first RN vessels to anchor in Esquimalt Hbr. Lt Cdr James Wood of HMS Pandora, who surveyed the hbr in 1847, named many of its features after the Fisgard’s officers. Rodd entered the RN in 1830, commanded the hospital ship...

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