Clifford Point is located at the southwest end of
Bawden Bay in
Clayoquot Sound, just east of
Ahousat on Flores Island.
Bawden Bay was named after Charles Bawden, master of the
Bacchante, and Clifford Point was named after Bawden’s son, who also served in the navy. In a letter attached to
this correspondence, Clifford Point is referred to as a surveillance post for naval operations in
Clayoquot Sound, specifically for
Pike’s siege of the Huu-ay-aht community who were supposedly involved in the death of
Banfield and
offer[ed] a determined resistance
to any investigation by the colonial authority on their territory.