Trevan Rock


Trevan Rock (52˚10'00" 131˚06'00" In Houston Stewart Channel, E of Rose Inlet, off S end of Moresby I, QCI). Henry Trevan (1808–80), the surgeon aboard HMS Virago, was a medical doctor, trained at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London, and joined the RN as an assistant surgeon in 1836. He served on the Pacific Station, 1852–55, and retired with the rank of fleet surgeon in 1861. The journal he kept while on the BC coast was an important source for the book HMS Virago in the Pacific, by BC...

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