Nasparti Inlet
| Feature Type: | Inlet (3) - Elongated body of water extending from a sea or lake. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W of Ououkinsh Inlet, Checleset Bay, just SE of Brooks Peninsula, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°08'49"N, 127°39'24"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 29 June 1921 on Ottawa file OBF 0611, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 716, 1863 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"In August 1787 Captain Colnett, commanding the Prince of Wales, a ship owned by the King George's Sound Company, discovered Nasparti Inlet and named it Port Brooks after one of the proprietors of the company..." Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |