Feature Type: | River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
Flows NE into Euchu Reach, Natalkuz Lake (Nechako Reservoir), Range 4 Coast Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
53°24'36"N, 125°16'08"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
93F/6 |
Related Maps: |
93C/13 93F/4 93F/6
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Origin Notes and History:
Adopted 7 February 1947 on 93/SW as a well-established name, and as labelled on BC Lands' map 1G, 1916, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.
Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office.
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Headwaters at 52 59 - 125 42 on 93C/13.
Source: Canadian Geographical Names Database, Ottawa
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The lower channel (between Entiako Lake and Natalkuz Lake) is labelled "Kestachie River" and the channel above Entiako Lake is labelled "Uhlgaco River" on Map of British Columbia - Northern, 1893.
Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office.
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