Feature Type: | Peninsula - Elongated projection of land into a body of water. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
In Actaeon Sound, Drury Inlet, N side of Queen Charlotte Strait opposite Port Hardy (municipality), Range 1 Coast Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
50°56'49"N, 127°06'55"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
92L/14 |
Origin Notes and History:
Adopted 2 August 1956 on C.3597, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq, and on BC map 2C, 1919 et seq.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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Presumably named in 1865 by Captain Pender, in association with other Admiralty and HMS Actaeon-related names. Significance not known.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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