Caamaño Passage
| 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 Dundas and Zayas Islands, NW of Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 54°35'31"N, 130°59'51"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103J/10 |
| Related Maps: |
103J/10 103J/11 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Caamaño Passage adopted 7 March 1933 on 103/NE as spelled in 1930 BC Gazetteer; not the form "Caamano" as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 1737, 1912. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1908 by Captain Learmouth, HMS Egeria, while making a survey of Zayas Island, after Lieutenant Commander Jacinto Caamaño, commander of the Spanish corvette Aranzazu, on this coast 1792. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |