| Feature Type: | Ledge (1) - Flat rock area, either projecting from a land mass into the water or rising from the sea floor. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Extending E from N entrance of Port McNeill, NE side Vancouver Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°36'14"N, 127°04'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 June 1952 on C.3569, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 3417, 1904 et seq, and as described in BC Pilot, 6th edition, 1938 or earlier. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Originally named Frampton Shoal in 1846 by Commander George Thomas Gordon of HM steam sloop Cormorant, after his recently deceased paymaster Christopher Nelson Frampton: "...having found an abundance of excellent coal on the peninsula that forms the NW side of [McNeill's Harbour, now Port McNeill], which is Ellenborough Peninsula, in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty. It's extreme point Newcastle [now Ledge Point] and the ledge of rocks in the harbour Framptons in remembrance of our late purser." (log of HMS Cormorant, 25 September 1846). No explanation in BC files why Gordon's "Frampton Shoal" was renamed Neill Ledge. Significance of "Neill" not known. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |