Hill Head

Hill Head (48˚23'00" 123˚41'00" SW side of Sooke Basin, S end of Vancouver I), Hill Island (50˚10'00" 125˚04'00" Sutil Channel, E of Burdwood Bay, Read I, N end of Str of Georgia). Hill Head was named in 1846 by Capt Henry Kellett, cdr of HMS Herald, after James Stephen Hill, his master and assistant survey officer. Hill served aboard the Herald from 1845 to 1852 and spent two of those years on the S coast of BC, charting the shores of Juan de Fuca Str. He had previously been 2nd master of...

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