Kingcome Point is a

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on the northwest tip of

Princess Royal Island Princess Royal Island is the largest island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is located amongst the isolated inlets and islands east of Hecate Strait on the British Columbia Coast. At , it is the fourth largest island in Britis ...

in the North Coast region of

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Name origin

The point was named about 1867 by

Captain Pender Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard , and from 1857 to 1870. Pender was recorded as the second master of the admiralty survey vessel, HMS ''Plumper'', in 1857 when h ...

, RN, for William Kingcome, who captained the

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barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are Square rig, rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-maste ...

''Princess Royal'' in 1862–63. Kingcome was the nephew of Admiral John Kingcome, commander of the Royal Navy's

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from 1863 to 1864, for whom the various Kingcome placenames around and including

Kingcome Inlet Kingcome Inlet is one of the lesser principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast, north and east of Broughton Island. It is sixth in sequence of the major saltwater fjords north from the 49th parallel near Vancouver and similar in width, on av ...

were named. Another point on Princess Royal Island, Trivett Point, the island's northernmost tip, was named for the previous captain of the ''Princess Royal'', J.T. Trivett, who captained the vessel in 1859-1861 when William Kingcome as its first master.''British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909'', Captain John T. Walbran, Ottawa, 1909, quoted in the BC Names/GeoBC entry

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Name origin

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