Wellington Rock

Wellington Rock (52˚12'00" 128˚09'00" N of Ormidale Hbr, Campbell I, just N of Bella Bella). According to Capt John Walbran, who examined and named this feature in 1902 while master of the lighthouse tender Quadra, the rock commemorates the steamship Wellington, which “grazed” the unmarked hazard earlier that year. The 83-m, 1,150-tonne collier, built at Newcastle, England, in 1883 and owned by coal baron and BC premier James Dunsmuir, was en route from Ladysmith to Juneau, under Capt...

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