Hutton Inlet


Hutton Inlet (52˚30'00" 131˚34'00" W side of Juan Perez Sd, E of Moresby I, QCI), Hutton Island (52˚31'00" 131˚32'00" Entrance to Hutton Inlet), Hutton Point (52˚32'00" 131˚32'00" N entrance to Hutton Inlet). Scottish geologist and naturalist James Hutton (1726–97) is considered the father of modern geology. His Theory of the Earth, first published in 1788, elucidated a number of new ideas: that the planet was very much older than had been formerly surmised, that the interior of the...

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