Strange Rock
| Feature Type: | Rock (1) - Small mass of rock usually projecting above the water surface. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Cape Scott, between Guise and Hansen Bays on NW side of Vancouver Island, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°44'29"N, 128°25'01"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 102I/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 13 March 1947 on C3688, as submitted by Hydrographic Service. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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"Black Rock" labelled on British Admiralty Chart #582, 1864 et seq. Re-named by H.D. Parizeau, Hydrograhic Service, in association with Cape Scott and Guise Bay, after James Charles Stuart Strange (1753-1840), the East India Company supercargo [officer in charge] of the fur trading expedition to this coast from Bombay in 1786, in the vessels "Experiment" and "Captain Cook" under Captains Guise and Laurie, respectively. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |