Sir Harry Range
| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Huaskin Lake, between Grappler Sound and Seymour Inlet, N of Port McNeill (municipality, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°59'51"N, 126°54'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/15 |
| Related Maps: |
92L/15 92M/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 31 December 1966 in the 1966 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Also Mount Verney. Named c1865 by Captain Pender, RN, after Sir Harry Verney, later Captain in Grenadier Guards; father of Lieutenant Commander Edmund H. Verney, commander of HMS Grappler on this station; patron of his sister-in-law, Florence Nightingale. See Mount Nightingale. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |