Pedder Bay

Pedder Bay (48˚20'00" 123˚33'00" S side of William Head, S tip of Vancouver I). This body of water was named in 1846 by Capt Henry Kellett of HMS Herald, probably after a friend, William Pedder, who was stationed in Hong Kong when Kellett was there in 1840–42 with HMS Starling. Pedder, a former RN officer, served as 1st lt aboard the E India Co’s Nemesis and was appointed Hong Kong’s first harbourmaster and marine magistrate in the early 1840s. Pedder Wharf was the colony’s main...

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