Arrow Passage
| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Bonwick and Mars Islands, SE of Broughton Island, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°42'48"N, 126°39'45"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 April 1950 on 92/NW, as labelled on BC map 2C, 1919 and listed in 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1867 by Captain Pender, RN, after the British trading schooner Arrow, engaged on this coast in 1862. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |