| Feature Type: | Harbour (1) - Sheltered water in a shoreline indentation, suitable for mooring or anchoring vessels. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Petrel Channel at NW end of Pittt Island, S of Prince Rupert, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°42'46"N, 130°05'18"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103G/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Newcombe Harbour adopted 3 July 1946 on 103/SE, as labelled on Admiralty Chart #1923, c1906. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Newcombe Harbour (not Comrie Harbour)" 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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NOT named after anthropologist Charles F. Newcombe. Named after Captain Holmes Newcomb (1859-1934) who was with the Fisheries Protection Service from 1903 to 1923. Numerous entries in BC Gazette, Directories, Fisheries Service Sessional Papers spell Newcomb and Newcombe interchangeably. 3 letters to the editor, The Province in 1926 and 1927, are signed "Holmes Newcomb"; obituary published in the Province, 24 July 1934, p.2. Extensive collection of articles, references in Provincial Archives. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |