Nahta Cone
| Feature Type: | Cone - Cone-shaped hill. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW corner of Mount Edziza Provincial Park, S of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 57°18'29"N, 130°49'13"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104G/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 January 1980 on 104G/7, as submitted by Geological Survey of Canada. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This feature is a cluster of small conelets, "nahta" being the Tahltan word for seven. So-named by Geological Survey of Canada after the last seven survivors of the Wetalth people - a group outcast or exiled from the Tahltans in time past Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |