| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Homathko River below Telhiqox Biny (lake), W of Franklyn Arm, Tŝilhqox Biny (lake), Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°16'16"N, 124°34'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92N/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 18 November 1935 on Ottawa files OBF 0836 and OBF 0732, as originally proposed by Captain R.P. Bishop, BCLS, in 1928. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named by Capt. R.P.Bishop, BCLS, a student of the Elizabethan navigators, in commemoration of the Freedom of the Seas in Peace, a fundamental principle of international law enunciated by Queen Elizabeth I on Drake's return from the Pacific in 1580: "Neither can any title to the Ocean belong to any people or private man, for as much as neither nature nor regard of the public use permitteth any possession there of." On the same occasion, Her Majesty asserted the right of the English to settle in America, supporting Drake's acts of possession, which led through Gilbert and Raleigh to permanent settlement in the following century. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |