| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Atushuup |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of David Channel, N of Broken Group in Barkley Sound, Clayoquot Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°58'09"N, 125°19'23"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1934 on C.327, as labelled on British Admiralty Charts 584 and 592, both 1861, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with David Channel, in turn named c1859 by Captain Richards, RN, after David Lyall MD, surgeon aboard Richards' surveying vessel HMS Plumper in 1858 and 1859. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The peninsula behind this point is a boundary between the traditional territories of Toquaht, Uchucklesaht and Tseshaht First Nations. The Toquaht name for this feature is Atushuup (pronounced atoosh oop) Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"Atushuup means standing deer point, where atush means deer." (advice from Toquaht Elder Anne Mack, shared November 2010) Source: included with note |