Burdwood Bay

Burdwood Bay (50˚10'05" 125˚05'25" W side of Read I, NE of Campbell R), Burdwood Group (50˚48'00" 126˚28'00" Between Gilford I and Broughton I, E of Queen Charlotte Str), Burdwood Point (49˚35'00" 126˚34'00" E entrance to Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). As master of HMS Persian in 1842, John Burdwood helped capture a slaver in the Bight of Benin. He became an assistant in the RN’s hydrographic dept, 1847–69, and compiled azimuth tables for part of the northern hemisphere. Burdwood...

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