Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
Between W end of West Cracoft Island and Harbledown Island, Range 1 Coast Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
50°33'00"N, 126°35'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
92L/10 |
Origin Notes and History:
Adopted 4 September 1947 on C.3584, as labelled on British Admiralty Charts 581, published in 1867 from surveys of 1860-65, and as labelled on BC map 2C, 1919 et seq, and as listed in the 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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Kwak'wala name for this body of water is Dàmliwas
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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