Slingsby Channel

Slingsby Channel (51˚05'00" 127˚34'00" N side of Bramham I, NW side of Queen Charlotte Str, N of Port Hardy), Slingsby Point (51˚05'00" 127˚38'00" NW side of Fox Is, Slingsby Channel), Slingsby Rock (51˚05'00" 127˚32'00" In Treadwell Bay, Slingsby Channel). Lt Daniel Pender of the Beaver named the channel in 1865 after Sir Charles Slingsby (1824–69), a Yorkshire nobleman who was killed crossing the river Ure while hunting with his foxhounds. The reason for this choice of name is not...

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