Cape Lazo
| Feature Type: | Cape - Prominent elevated projection of land extending into a body of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE. of Comox Harbour, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'04"N, 124°51'36"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 March 1922 on Ottawa file OBF 0671. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Named punta de Lazo de la Vega by Narvaez, 1791. Lazo is Spanish for 'snare'." (18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |