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Mount Bullock
Mount Bullock, 36 km northeast of Port Hardy, is a mountain in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, standing on the north side of the lower reaches of Actaeon Sound, which is a sidewater of Drury Inlet. Lee Lake is to its north, the Bond Peninsula immediately south. Name origin The mountain is listed in ''Burns Naval Biography'', publ. 1849. Dove Island nearby, at the entrance to Actaeon Sound via Actress Passage, is believed to have been named for the gunboat HMS ''Dove'', commanded by Lieut. Cdr James Bullock, which was deployed as tender to HMS ''Actaeon'' in the East Indies and Chinese waters in later years. See also * Bullock (other) Bullock may refer to: Animals * Bullock (in British English), a castrated male bovine animal of any age * Bullock (in North America), a young bull (an uncastrated male bovine animal) * Bullock (in Australia, India and New Zealand), an ox, an adu ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock Pacific Ranges Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Ranges
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Drury Inlet
Drury inlet is an inlet in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, extending west from Wells Passage to the northwest of North Broughton Island, northwest of the town of Port Hardy. Branching off to the northeast from the north side of the head of the inlet is Actaeon Sound. Compton Point is the headland on the south side of the entrance, at , opposite North Broughton Island, which is the most northwesterly of the Broughton Archipelago, which is situated to the north of the mouth of Knight Inlet. Compton Point is the tip of a peninsula of the mainland, on the outside of which is located Blunden Harbour, some distance to the west from the south entrance of Wells Passage and is itself at the entry to another series of inlets (Belize Inlet, Seymour Inlet and others). Among the features on the inlet's shoreline, Bughouse Bay at was named for "a deranged settler who once lived in a cabin on the shore of the bay". Bughouse Lake is immedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullock (other)
Bullock may refer to: Animals * Bullock (in British English), a castrated male bovine animal of any age * Bullock (in North America), a young bull (an uncastrated male bovine animal) * Bullock (in Australia, India and New Zealand), an ox, an adult male bovine used for draught (usually but not always castrated) Places Canada * Bullock Channel, a water channel in British Columbia, Canada * Bullock Bluff, the northern point of Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada * Mount Bullock, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada United States * Bullock County, Alabama ** Bullock Correctional Facility, a medium-security Alabama Department of Corrections prison * Bullock, a community in the township of Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada * Bullock, New Jersey, an unincorporated community * Bullock, South Dakota, a ghost town * Bullock Creek (South Carolina) Elsewhere * Bullock Harbour, near Dalkey, Ireland * Bullock Park, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Other uses * Bullock (su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Actaeon (1831)
HMS ''Actaeon'' was a 26-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Career ''Actaeon'' was designed in 1827 by the School of Naval Architecture, and launched from Portsmouth Dockyard on 31 January 1831. She was first commissioned in November 1830 under Captain Frederick William Grey for service in the Mediterranean. On 5 November 1831 she rescued the crew of ''Ariel'', which was wrecked near Brindisi, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. ''Ariel'' was on a voyage from Trieste to Greenock, Renfrewshire. After serving in the Mediterranean ''Actaeon'' served off South America from November 1834 under Captain Lord Edward Russell. She was assigned to the British Pacific Squadron, arriving in Valparaíso in July 1836. She was involved in the charting of the Acteon Group: a group of islands that Russell named after this vessel. By 1838 she was back in Portsmouth under the command of Robert Russell, who sailed her back to South America in August that year. On 23 July 1840, she ran agroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bullock (Royal Navy Officer)
James Bullock (25 March 1902 – 9 March 1977) was an English professional footballer, who played as a forward who played for various clubs in the 1920s and 1930s. Playing career Bullock was born in Gorton and after spending his early days playing with Gorton he joined Manchester City in March 1922. He failed to break into City's first team and in February 1924 he moved to Crewe Alexandra in Division Three North. After half a season with Crewe he was signed by Division Two Southampton in August 1924. He remained at Southampton for five years during which he was usually only called upon to play in the first team when either Bill Rawlings or Arthur Dominy were unavailable. In his first three seasons at The Dell he only made fifteen appearances including a spell of ten games in the latter half of the 1925–26 season when first Dominy and then Rawlings were unavailable in which Bullock scored four goals, including a brace against Derby County on 10 February 1926. In the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dove (1855)
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Dove'' after the bird family ''Columbidae'': * was an 8-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and wrecked in 1674. * was a 4-gun ketch built at Deptford in 1672 and sold in 1683. * was a 4-gun schooner purchased in May 1805 and captured by the French in August the same year. * was the mercantile ''Ariadne'', launched at Cowes in 1803, and purchased in 1805 as an advice boat. She was renamed HMS ''Dove'', and then renamed HMS ''Flight'' in 1806 but foundered in September 1806. * was a 6-gun packet brig purchased in 1823 and sold in 1829. * , a 12-gun , was ordered as HMS ''Dove'' in 1839, renamed ''Kangaroo'' in 1843, and eventually launched in 1852. She was sold in 1897. * was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold at Shanghai in 1873. * was a 20-ton paddle gunboat built in sections at Yarrows in Poplar, London in 1893 and assembled in East Africa. She was transferred to the government of British Central A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress Passage
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Island (British Columbia)
Dove Island may refer to: *Dove Island (Canada), Nunavut Canada *Dove Island (British Columbia), Canada ** Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12, an Indian reserve comprising that island *Dove Island (Guangzhou), an English naming for Guanzhou Island in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Naming by UK Government. *Dove Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) *Dove Island, Minnesota, an island in Rainy Lake Rainy Lake ( French: '; Ojibwe: ') is a freshwater lake with a surface area of that straddles the border between the United States and Canada. The Rainy River issues from the west side of the lake and is harnessed to make hydroelectricity for ..., home to the community of Island View * Dove Island (Western Australia) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bond Peninsula
Bond or bonds may refer to: Common meanings * Bond (finance), a type of debt security * Bail bond, a commercial third-party guarantor of surety bonds in the United States * Chemical bond, the attraction of atoms, ions or molecules to form chemical compounds People * Bond (surname) * Bonds (surname) * Mr. Bond (musician), Austrian rapper Arts and entertainment * James Bond, a series of works about the eponymous fictional character * James Bond (literary character), a British secret agent in a series of novels and films * Bond (band), an Australian/British string quartet ** '' Bond: Video Clip Collection'', a video collection from the band * Bond (Canadian band), a Canadian rock band in the 1970s * ''The Bond'' (2007 book), an American autobiography written by The Three Doctors * ''The Bond'', a 1918 film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds * Bond International Casino, a former music venue in New York City Places Antarctica * Bond Glacier, at the head of Vincennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaeon Sound
Actaeon Sound is a sound in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, branching off northeasterly from the north side of Drury Inlet near its head on the mainland of British Columbia to the north of the town of Port McNeill, on the opposite side of Queen Charlotte Strait. On the south side of the sound is the Bond Peninsula at , which is formed by a sidewater, Bond Lagoon at , both presumably named in 1865 by Captain Pender, in association with other Admiralty and HMS ''Actaeon''-related names. On the southeast side of Actress Passage at , which is the waterway connecting Actaeon Sound into Drury Inlet is Charlotte Point at , which was first published on Admiralty maps in 1865 like other locations in the area. Dove Island sits in the middle of the opening, on the Drury Inlet side. Located at , all of it comprises Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12, 8.1 ha., which is under the administration of the Gwawaenuk Tribe band government of the Kwakwaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Peak (British Columbia)
Marion Peak is a remote mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated on Cirque Crest which is west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, northeast of State Peak, and northwest of Arrow Peak, the nearest higher neighbor. Topographic relief is significant as the north aspect rises above Marion Lake in one mile, and the southeast aspect rises above South Fork Kings River in less than two miles. History The first ascent of the summit was made July 22, 1902, by Joseph Nisbet LeConte and Curds Lindley via the east slope. They climbed it in order to scout a possible route to the northern Palisades. The Northwest Ridge was first climbed August 11, 1945, by Art Reyman. Marion Peak is named in association with Marion Lake below is northern slopes. Marion Lake was named by Joseph N. LeConte for his wife, Helen Marion Gompertz LeConte (1865–1924), who accompanied him on this 1902 pioneeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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