Ballenas Channel
| Feature Type: | Channel (3) - Narrow stretch of water connecting two bodies of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Ballinac Channel |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side Strait of Georgia, just off Parksville, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°19'17"N, 124°09'15"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Ballenas Channel adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, in association with Ballenas Islands and as labelled on BC map 2A, 1913, not "Ballinac Channel" as mislabelled on British Admiralty Chart 585, published in 1864 from surveys of 1860, etc. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |