Sharbau Island

Sharbau Island (51˚25'00" 127˚42'00" S entrance to Rivers Inlet, N of Port Hardy). Named by Lt Daniel Pender of the Beaver in 1865 after Henry Sharbau (1822–1904), a draftsman at the RN hydrographic dept in England at the time that Capt George Richards, who had been Pender’s predecessor as the chief marine surveyor on the BC coast, was head of the dept. Sharbau was born in Germany but came to Scotland as a young man and worked for the ordnance survey and the Admiralty in the Hebrides and...

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