The first keeper was Alexander Pesonen and later when he married his wife, Mary Watson, she joined him. In June of 1923, after nearly 25 years at North Head, Mary went for a walk with the dog and never returned. Earlier that month Pesonen had taken his wife to the doctor where she was diagnosed with depression. But the returned because she was in high spirits and happy. Why is it called Cape Disappointment? "Though the cape was first mapped by Spanish explorer Bruno de Hezeta in 1775, its naming is credited to English Captain John Meares, who approached the cape in 1788, but could not locate the river's entrance. Meares, therefore, named the headland Cape Disappointment."
*TW* Episode talks of suicide and depression
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