Warm Bay Hot Springs
| Language of origin | English language |
| Feature Type: | Hotsprings / Hot Springs - Site of a natural flow of hot or warm water issuing from the ground. Plural of Hotspring / Hot Spring. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Yat’aayi HéenOfficial |
| Relative Location: | E side of Atlin Lake, opposite Twelve Mile Point (Theresa Island), Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 59°24'13"N, 133°34'31"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 104N/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Warm Bay Hotsprings" adopted 7 October 1954 on 104 N/5. Form of name changed to "Warm Bay Hot Springs" 17 May 1984 on 104N/5. Named in association with "Warm Bay". Yat’aayi Héen made the official name 28 July 2023 on 104N/5, as requested by Taku River Tlingit First Nation. Yat’aayi Héen is the traditional and ancestral Tlingit name (advice from Taku River Tlingit, 2016). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |