| Feature Type: | Passage - Variation of Pass: Narrow stretch of water connecting two larger water bodies. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Tree Nob Group and Melville Island W of Prince Rupert, Range 5 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°19'24"N, 130°48'42"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 March 1933 on 103NE as long-identified on British Admiralty Charts. Confirmed 4 November 1948 on 103NE and 8 July 1954 on 103J/7. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in July 1793 by Captain Vancouver, after Captain William Brown, of the ship Butterworth, which vessel Vancouver met with at the north end of Stephens Island 21 July 1793. Brown later provided much information about local waters including the existence of Portland and Observatory inlets. Captain Brown later met Vancouver at Nootka....... see Walbran's "British Columbia Coast Names" for further information. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |