Ballet Bay
| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S side of Blind Bay, Nelson Island, in entrance to Jervis Inlet, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°42'59"N, 124°10'49"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/9 |
Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship - GeoBC Branch
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 July 1950 on C.3589, as submitted by Hydrographic Service (files C.1.45 and P.1.24); an established local name according to L.H. Roberts, Billings Bay. Origin/significance not provided. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Likely named by Nelson Island residents Harry and Midge Thomas, whose daughter was a dancer with the Russian Ballet. (information provided April 2003 by Miros Hagen, née Maynard, whose father was the namesake for nearby Maynard Head). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |