Ketchen Island
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just S of Port Alice (mill site), in Neroutsos Inlet, Quatsino Sound, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°22'36"N, 127°27'21"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 April 1927 on C316, as submitted by Hydrographic Service. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Labelled "Long Island" on British Admiralty Chart #582, 1865 et seq. Re-named by H.D. Parizeau, Hydrographic Service, after W.L. Ketchen, CE, superintendent of Port Alice Pulp and Paper Mills when the inlet was surveyed in 1925. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |