Christensen Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE of Cape Scott (former settlement), N end Vancouver Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°50'01"N, 128°12'40"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 102I/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 February 1947 on C.3676, as submitted by Hydrographic Service and as as labelled on their Chart 376, 1941. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Soren Christensen, a settler who located in the vicinity of Cache Creek (now Stranby River) in 1897. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |