Winnifred Rocks

Winnifred Rocks (52˚48'00" 132˚02'00" Entrance to Newcombe Inlet, Tasu Sd, W side of Moresby I, QCI). The hydrographic service named these rocks in 1962 after the sealing schooner Winnifred (sometimes spelled Winifred), which operated out of Victoria in the early 1880s. It was one of the vessels seized in the Bering Sea in 1892 by the US revenue cutter Richard Rush during the long-running dispute between Canada and the US over northern seal-hunting rights and territories. Capt Gustave Hansen,...

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