| Feature Type: | Rock (1) - Small mass of rock usually projecting above the water surface. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | In front of Columbia Cove at the entrance to Nasparti Inlet, Checleset Bay, NW of Kyuquot Sound, Rupert Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°08'01"N, 127°40'36"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 30 September 1982 on 92L/4, as submitted by Hydrographic Service (file A.1.35). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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To commemorate John Boit, log keeper aboard Captain Grey's vessel, Columbia, 1792. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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See "Log of the Union: John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast and Around the World, 1794-1796", published by Oregon Historical Society, 1981. Copy in BC GeogNames library. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"John Boit (1774-1829) was 5th mate aboard the Columbia Rediviva on Capt. Robert Gray's 1791-92 trading expedition to [this coast]. A native of Boston, he was a brother-in-law of one of the ship's merchant owners. His journal or logbook is the most complete surviving record of this historic voyage. In 1794-96, as captain of the merchant vessel Union, Boit circumnavigated the globe on a second trading journey and kept another important log. While in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1795, the crew of the Union repulsed a Haida attack and killed Koya, the renegade chief who had been a scourge of foreign traders to the region. Scholarly editions of both Boit's logbooks have been published." Source: Scott, Andrew; "The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names"; Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2009. |