| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Forbidden Plateau, head of Goss Creek, Comox Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°41'47"N, 125°23'02"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Circlet Lake adopted 12 December 1939 on 92F/11; not Circle Lake as known in the mountaineering community. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named Circle Lake in the 1920's by prospector John Brown, because of its' shape. Allan Brooks, a Comox naturalist, suggests that - because the lake is actually within a cirque - Brown's name might have been a corruption of the term 'cirque'. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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In reference to a ring or small loop. "Fairest of stars.... that crown'st the smiling morn with thy bright circlet...." [from John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, lines 166-169] Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa |