Expedition Islets


Expedition Islets (50˚06'00" 127˚14'00" Entrance to Kashutl Inlet, Kyuquot Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Named for the three-week expedition that two officers from HMS Hecate, under Capt George Richards, made in 1862 from this vicinity to Ft Rupert on the E coast of Vancouver I. Lt Philip Hankin (see Hankin Cove) and Dr Charles Wood (see Wood Cove) left the Ka:’yu:’K’t’h (Kyuquot) First Nation settlement of Aktis at Kyuquot Sd with six guides and hiked and canoed via Tahsish Inlet,...

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