Greig Lake
| Feature Type: | Lake - Inland body of standing water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W of Buttle Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park, Nootka Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°39'01"N, 125°37'36"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/12 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 October 1965 on 92F/12, as submitted by Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club. Also Greig Ridge and Greig Creek. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Ruth Masters, Comox District Mountaineering Club, after Edward James "Ted" Greig, botanist and horticulturalist from Royston, who made a lifelong study of the alpine & subapline flowers on Forbidden Plateau and elsewhere in Strathcona Park. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |