Wigen Shoal

Wigen Shoal (51˚25'00" 128˚08'00" N end of the Sea Otter Group, SW of Calvert I, Queen Charlotte Sd). Named in 1947 after Sydney O Wigen (1923–2000), who graduated from UBC as a civil engineer in 1945 and joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service. He participated in surveys of Seymour Narrows, the Inside Passage and Queen Charlotte and Smith sounds, 1945– 47, and later became tidal superintendent for the Pacific region of the CHS, responsible for tide and current research in the Pacific...

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