Skudas Point

Skudas Point (52˚44'00" 131˚41'00" NW end of Lyell I, Richardson Inlet, off E side of Moresby I, QCI). Named in 1957 by the hydrographic service after the Haida First Nation village of Skudas, which was located just E of the point. This settlement, whose name translates as “too late town,” was an Eagle crest site led by a brother of Klue, the town chief at Tanu. It was already in ruins when visited by geologist George Mercer Dawson in 1878. D

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