| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Grenville Channel opposite Pitt Island, SW of Kitimat, Range 4 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°31'59"N, 129°32'05"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103H/12 |
| Related Maps: |
103H/11 103H/12 103H/5 103H/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 11 May 1946 on C.3772, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1923A, 1881 et seq, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Confirmed 4 February 1949 on C.3772,and 2 October 1952 on 103H. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"After Harriot Georgina....Countess of Dufferin, wife of the Earl of Dufferin, who served as Governor General of Canada 1872 - 1878; named in 1876 by the captain and officers of HMS Amethyst, when the Governor General and his wife were taking a cruise on this coast, described in her delightful book, "My Canadian Journal," London, 1891." Dufferin Island was named at the same time. 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) |