Rainbow Falls
| Feature Type: | Falls - Perpendicular or steep descent of water. Variation of Waterfall. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Mouth of Angus Horne Creek, SE side of Azure Lake in Wells Gray Provincial Park, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'50"N, 119°58'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Rainbow Falls (not Azure Falls nor Angushorne Falls)" adopted 14 December 1970 on 83D, as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, and as labelled on BC map 1G, 1959. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Note that this is identified as Angushorne Falls in Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report, 1929, Part A, page 280 and Rainbow Falls is applied to a different feature: "...most streams enter [Azure Lake] over waterfalls, the largest of which are Angushorne falls near the east end, and Rainbow falls about halfway along the shore..." Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |