Pearson Island

Pearson Island (49˚38'00" 124˚05'00" E side of Malaspina Str, W of Pender Hbr, NW of Vancouver). This feature, which appears on Admiralty charts as early as 1863, is possibly named for astronomer William Pearson (1767–1847), co-founder in 1820 of Britain’s Royal Astronomical Society. Born at Whitbeck, Cumberland, “he early manifested a love for mechanism, and contrived and executed various machines for exhibiting and explaining astronomical phenomena,” according to Charles Weld in A...

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