Pearse Islands
| Feature Type: | Islands - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. Plural of Island. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In N entrance of Johnstone Strait, just E of Alert Bay (community), Cormorant Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°35'05"N, 126°51'53"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 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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"Named c1860 by Captain Richards, RN, after Commander William Alfred Rumbulow Pearse, RN, commanding HMS Alert on this station 1858-61. Entered the navy 1832; lieutenant 1841; commander 1855; captain 1862; rear admiral, retired, 1876; died 1890." Also Pearse Peninsula, Broughton Island. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |