Meares 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: | NW side of Graham Island, facing Parry Passage, Queen Charlotte Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°11'03"N, 133°01'33"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103K/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Confirmed 2 June 1949 on C.3868. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by the Hydrographic Service after John Meares, one of the owners of the Iphigenia Nubiana, which Douglas sailed to this area in 1788 and 1789.... [see also Meares Island] Source: Dalzell, Kathleen E; Queen Charlotte Islands - Book 2: of places and names; Prince Rupert: Cove Press, 1973 |