| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of entrance to Loughborough Inlet, N of Johnstone Strait NE of Sayward (municipality), Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°28'03"N, 125°38'46"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 November 1952 on 92K, 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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Named c1864 by Captain Pender, RN, after Captain William Hales Franklyn, of the mercantile marine, and stipendiary magistrate of Nanaimo, 1860-1867; presided over the first court held in Nanaimo....(see Walbran for additional biographical information). 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) |
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Name positioned near a cluster of peaks eastward of Mt Egremont on British Admiralty Chart 581; application subsequently extended to the entire upland overlooking Chancellor Channel between D'Arcy and William Points and extending back to the lowland between the heads of Beaver Inlet and Forward Harbour. Source: |