Kipling Island


Kipling Island (51˚57'00" 127˚54'00" Off SW end of King I, Fisher Channel, SE of Bella Bella). Charles Kipling, from London, England, joined the HBC’s maritime service in 1830 as capt of the barque Ganymede, replacing the “intemperate” and “deranged” Capt L J Hayne, who, while returning from Ft Vancouver to England, sailed his vessel to Hobart, Tasmania, instead. (Chief factor John McLoughlin wrote that “Capt Hayne is so much addicted to Liquor I conceive it would be hazarding the...

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