Gitnadoix River
| Feature Type: | River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Pronounced: | git nah doyks |
| Relative Location: | Flows N into Skeena River below Terrace, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°20'13"N, 129°13'12"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103I/6 |
| Related Maps: |
103I/3 103I/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Gitnadoix Creek identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, as labelled on BC map 3M, 1916. Name changed to Gitnadoix River 4 November 1948 on 103/NE; confirmed 4 October 1951 on 103I. Origin/significance not recorded. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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From the Tsimshian word meaning "people of the swift water". Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; "British Columbia Place Names"; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997 |