Starling Point

Starling Point (49˚24'00" 126˚14'00" NW tip of Flores I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Named by the hydrographic service in 1945 after HMS Starling, the tender that accompanied HMS Sulphur, under Cdr Edward Belcher, on his surveying expedition to the W coasts of N and S America and subsequent circumnavigation of the world, 1836–42. The Starling, under Lt Cdr Henry Kellett, was a 4-gun cutter, a tiny schooner of only 98 tonnes, launched in 1829 and sold in 1844. Both vessels were at...

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