Tumbo Channel

Tumbo Channel (48˚47'00" 123˚05'00" Between Tumbo I and E end of Saturna I, Gulf Is), Tumbo Island (48˚48'00" 123˚04'00" Just N of E end of Saturna I), Tumbo Point (48˚48'00" 123˚03'00" E end of Tumbo I), Tumbo Reef (48˚48'00" 123˚03'00" Just N of E tip of Saturna I, S end of Str of Georgia). The origin of this unusual name, which first appears on an 1860 Admiralty chart surveyed by Capt George Richards, had stumped historians until the mystery was solved in 1991 in a neat piece of...

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