| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E entrance to Inverness Passage at mouth of Skeena River, S of Prince Rupert, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°08'52"N, 130°08'15"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 April 1927 on C.313 as submitted by H.D. Parizeau, Canadian Hydrographic Service. Confirmed 8 July 1954 on 103J/1. Origin/significance not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"...from the old British Admiralty Chart 2453, Brown & Edye Passage; probbly named by Comdr. Hanmer...." (H.D. Parizeau, CHS, October 1926), however this name - and details of the Inverness Passage area - is not included on BA2453, published in 1872 from surveys by Pender et al 1867-69. Another edition of BA2453 was reportedly published in 1912, possibly including this name. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |