Thynne Peninsula


Thynne Peninsula (50˚29'00" 125˚46'00" Between Bessborough Bay and Forward Hbr, just NE of Hardwicke I, N of Johnstone Str), Thynne Point (50˚29'00" 125˚47'00" W end of Thynne Peninsula). In 1865, RN surveyor Daniel Pender named a number of features around Forward Hbr after the family of Lt Cdr Horace Lascelles, who served on the BC coast, 1861–65, as cdr of the gunboat Forward (see Lascelles Point) and later returned to Victoria as a businessman, dying there suddenly in 1869. Thynne...

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