Nolan Point

Nolan Point (50˚50'00" 127˚37'00" S end of Balaklava I, NE end of Goletas Channel, off N end of Vancouver I, NW of Port Hardy). In 1863–64, RN surveyor Lt Daniel Pender named Balaklava I and several other features in the vicinity after people and places associated with the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War. In 1903, Cdr Cortland Simpson of HMS Egeria, on re-surveying the area, added this name, after Capt Louis Edward Nolan of the 15th Hussars, the Canadian officer who...

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