| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Thetic Cove, Esquimalt Harbour, W of Victoria, Esquimalt Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°26'55"N, 123°26'23"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 et seq. 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 James Wood, HM surveying vessel Pandora, after Charles Dyke, RN, 2nd lieutenant aboard HMS Fisgard under Capt. John A. Duntze. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |
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Area residents called this "White Lady Point" c1900; significance/anecdote not known. (July 1990 advice from Norm Patton) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |