Mount Warburton Pike


Mount Warburton Pike (48˚46'28" 123˚10'18" S side of Saturna I, Gulf Is). Wealthy English sportsman, explorer and author Warburton Mayer Pike (1861–1915) was educated at Rugby School and Oxford, and came to BC in 1884, intent on satisfying his keen desire to hunt big game. He bought property at Oak Bay and on Mayne and Saturna islands, and operated a 600-ha sheep ranch and significant sandstone quarry on Saturna (see Taylor Point). Pike was a great traveller, employing managers to run his...

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