Strange Island

Strange Island (49˚42'00" 126˚37'00" S end of Tahsis Inlet, E of Kendrick Inlet, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I), Strange Rock (50˚44'00" 128˚25'00" S of Guise Bay, SW of Cape Scott, NW end of Vancouver I). James Charles Stuart Strange (1753–1840), a Madras-based employee of the E India Co, led the second fur-trading expedition to the PNW, in 1786. He was born at London, the son of well-known Scottish engraver Sir Robert Strange and brother of Sir Thomas Andrew Strange, who served as...

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