Wanderer Island

Wanderer Island (52˚25'00" 131˚24'00" N entrance to Burnaby Str, off SE side of Moresby I, QCI), Wanderer Point (52˚24'00" 131˚25'00" NE entrance to Skaat Hbr,just SW of Wanderer I on Moresby I). Wanderer I wasnamed in 1878 by George Mercer Dawson after the 20-tonne trading schooner Wanderer, with which he and his younger brother Rankine made a detailed geological exploration of the QCI. The vessel had a crew of three and left Victoria in May 1878, returning in Oct. Dawson described it as...

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