Saxe Point

Saxe Point (48˚25'00" 123˚25'00" NW of Macaulay Point, between Victoria Hbr and Esquimalt Hbr, SE end of Vancouver I). After Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria. Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha were two Saxon duchies in the present-day German states of Bavaria and Thuringia. Lt Cdr James Wood of HMS Pandora originally gave the name Cape Saxe to this feature in 1847, in association with nearby Gotha Point and Coburg Peninsula. Albert Head, just to the SW, had already...

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