| Feature Type: | Cape - Prominent elevated projection of land extending into a body of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW entrance of Queen Charlotte Strait, N of N end Vancouver Island, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°09'48"N, 127°47'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/4 |
|
|
Origin Notes and History:
|
Cape Caution adopted 7 October 1948 on C.3598, as identified on Vancouver's chart, and on British Admiralty Chart 2430, 1856 et seq. The name applies to the whole headland, as shown on Canadian Hydrographic charts. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
|
Named in May 1793 by Captain Vancouver, from the dangerous navigation in the vicinity. Vancouver's ship Discovery was nearly lost the previous year, 6 August 1872, on a rock about 15 miles southeastward of Cape Caution, while passing out by North channel to the ocean. 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) |