Ornostay Bluff
Feature Type:Bluff (2) - A steep-sided hill or promontory.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Just SW of Mount Edziza in Mount Edziza Provincial Park, SE of Telegraph Creek (community), Cassiar Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 57°42'15"N, 130°42'37"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 104G/10
Origin Notes and History:

Adopted 2 January 1980 on 104G, 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

Name required for geological reports. According to tribal history, part of the Tahltan population set out by canoe down the Stikine River to find a new home on the coast. Their way was blocked by a glacier across the river but two old women, Ornostay and Koosick, volunteered to float under the ice bridge. (November 1979 letter from Geological Survey of Canada, file T.2.54)

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office