Solander Island

Solander Island (50˚07'00" 127˚56'00" Off NW end of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I), Solander Point (53˚33'00" 130˚33'00" NW of Kingkown Inlet, NW side of Banks I). Daniel Carlsson Solander (1733–82) was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus who came to England in 1760 and worked at the British Museum as an assistant librarian. He accompanied naturalist Joseph Banks on Capt James Cook’s first voyage of discovery, 1768–71, on HMS Endeavour and made an important...

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