| Feature Type: | Head (1) - High, prominent land feature extending into a sea or lake. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E entrance point to Esquimalt Harbour, just W of Victoria, Esquimalt Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°25'51"N, 123°26'22"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 May 1934 on National Defence sheet 415a, Victoria, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1901, 1859, and on British Admiralty Chart 576, 1862 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Mis-spelled "Ountze Head" on Geological Survey sheet 20A, Victoria, 1915. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1847 by Lieutenant Commander Wood, HM surveying vessel Pandora, after Captain John Alexander Duntze, RN, HMS Fisgard, on this station 1843-47. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The former British naval base had its first buildings on this point; now the site of the Royal Canadian Navy's dockyard at Esquimalt. Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |