Upwood Point

Upwood Point (49˚29'00" 124˚07'00" SE tip of Texada I, Str of Georgia). In June 1792, Capt George Vancouver named this feature Point Upwood “in remembrance of an early friendship.” NZ historian John Robson has suggested that Thomas Upwood, who lived at Lovell’s Hall, Terrington St Clements, just W of Vancouver’s childhood home of King’s Lynn, may have been the source of the name.

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