Dove Island
| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Drury Inlet in entrance of Actress Passage, N of Queen Charlotte Strait opposite Port Hardy (municipality), Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°55'58"N, 127°08'35"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 August 1956 on C.3597, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 581, 1867 et seq, and on BC map 3C, 1919. Origin/significance not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Likely named by Hydrographer's Office, referring to HM gunboat Dove, 232 tons, launched in November 1855; under command of Lieut. Cdr James Bullock and deployed as a tender to HM surveying vessel Actaeon in East Indies and China waters in subsequent years. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |