Shadwell Passage

Shadwell Passage (50˚55'00" 127˚49'00" Between Hope I and Vansittart I, off N end of Vancouver I). RN officer Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell (1814–86) was an expert on nautical astronomy and wrote several standard texts on the subject. He was a capt in 1864 when Capt George Richards, the RN’s chief hydrographer, named this feature after him, and he had seen action at the bombardment of Acre in 1840, in the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War of 1852–53 and during the 2nd Opium War of 1856–60....

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