| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Gilford Island, NE of Port McNeill, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°45'12"N, 126°33'56"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/15 |
| Related Maps: |
92L/10 92L/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 April 1950 on 92/NW, as labelled on BC map 2C, 1919 et seq, and as listed 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 by Lieut. Commander William Robert Broughton of the armed tender Chatham, after First Lieutenant Baker of HMS Discovery. ("Place Names of British Columbia" compiled by James R. Anderson (1841-1912), original unpublished manuscript in Provincial Archives, Add. Ms. Box 18). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Lieutenant Baker was keeper of the Remarks Book for MHS Discovery, commonly called the "ship's log". The Catham and Discovery surveyed Fife Sound August 1792 Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |