| Feature Type: | Channel (3) - Narrow stretch of water connecting two bodies of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Cormorant and Malcolm Islands, just E off Port McNeill (community), Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°36'27"N, 126°53'30"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/10 |
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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, and as identified 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 after HM paddle sloop Cormorant, 6 guns, built in 1842, commander G.T. Gordon. On this station 1844-50, being the first naval steam vessel in these waters. Cormorant Island was named by Commander Gordon in 1846 and Cormorant Rock was shown on the first survey of Beaver Harbour, made by Lieutenant George Hope Mansell in 1851. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |