| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W of Dundas Island at E end of Dixon Entrance, NW of Prince Rupert, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°36'14"N, 131°04'35"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Zayas Island adopted 7 March 1933 on 103/NE, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1737, published in 1912 from 1908 surveys, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Isle de Zayas [sic] identified in Sailing Directions, Queen Charlotte Islands - Western Coast of North America, 1853, p.13; remarks by George H. Inskip, Master, RN. (British Library 10496.i.29) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1792 by Lieutenant Jacinto Caamaño, commanding the Spanish corvette Aranzazu, while searching for the Strait of de Fonti. Source: Middleton, Lynn; Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast; Elldee Publishing Company, Victoria, 1969 |