Anders Lake

Feature Type:Lake - Inland body of standing water.
Status:
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: N side Bottle Creek, NE of Williams Lake, Cariboo Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 52°17'06''N, 121°47'58''W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: NAD83
NTS Map: 93A/5

Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 27 July 1976 on 93A, as submitted by Water Rights Branch (WR 0309631). Also Anders Creek.

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Name required for Water Licence; in the absence of any known local name, "Anders" chosen by Water Rights from a biographical dictionary, after Polish General Wladyslaw Anders (1892 - )

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office