Erskine Point

Erskine Point (48˚51'00" 123˚34'00" SW of Booth Bay, W side of Saltspring I, Gulf Is). Named about 1859 by RN hydrographer Capt George Richards for Rear Adm John Elphinstone Erskine (1806–87), who at that time was second-in-command of the Channel squadron. He had served as senior officer on the Australia Station in 1848, then commanded HMS Monarch and Orion during the Crimean War. Erskine was an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, 1856–57; sat as a Liberal MP for Stirlingshire, 1865–74; and...

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