Gambier Harbour

Gambier Harbour (49˚26'00" 123˚26'00" SW end of Gambier I), Gambier Island (49˚29'35" 123˚23'35" Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver), Gambier Point (49˚27'00" 123˚23'00" W entrance to Port Graves, Gambier I). RN officer John James Gambier (1756–1833) was born in the Bahamas, where his father was lt gov. He commanded HMS Defence in the 1794 British naval victory known as the Glorious First of June, from which many of Howe Sd’s place names are drawn. Gambier was a lord of the Admiralty on several...

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