Sea Bird Island
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In the Fraser River below Harrison Hot Springs (municipality), Yale Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°16'37"N, 121°42'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/5 |
| Related Maps: |
92H/4 92H/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Seabird Island adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer; confirmed 6 October 1936 on Geological Survey sheet 421A, Hope. Form of name changed to Sea Bird Island 22 August 1967 on 92H/SW. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after the American paddle steamer "Sea Bird", the first steamer to go up the Fraser river as far as Murderer's Bar.... 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) |