Blind Bay

Blind Bay (49˚44'00" 124˚11'00" W side of Nelson I, mouth of Jervis Inlet). It was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 that Adm Horatio Nelson put his blind eye to his telescope and was thus unable to see his superior’s signal recalling him (see Telescope Passage). In 1860, Capt George Richards named several features in this vicinity in Lord Nelson’s honour, including Blind Bay, which faces Telescope Passage and lies between Nelson I and Hardy I (qv). A far less plausible explanation for...

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