Witty's Lagoon
| Feature Type: | Lagoon - Body of water, separated from a lake, river, or sea by a narrow land barrier, which may completely enclose it or leave a shallow passageway into it. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Metchosin Lagoon |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N end of Parry Bay, just W of Albert Head in Metchosin (municipality), Metchosin Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°23'13"N, 123°30'58"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Metchosin Lagoon adopted 12 June 1934 on National Defence sheet 415b, Metchosin (file S.2.33 pt.2). Name changed to Witty's Lagoon 25 May 1973 on 92B/5h. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |