| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Sonora Island, at junction of Johnstone Strait and Discovery Passage, Sayward Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°20'31"N, 125°19'25"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 August 1948 on Hydrographic Chart S119 (file D.1.44), as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 580, published 1867 et seq, and on BC map 3C, 1919. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1863 by Captain Pender, RN, after William Binnington, 2nd Lieutenant aboard H.M. Cameleon, a 17-gun screw sloop on this station May 1863 - 1865. Numerous features in the immediate vicinity were named by Pender for Cameleon and her crew. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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The following names in Cameleon Harbour are given after the officers of the sloop during [her first commission on the Pacific Station, 1863-63]: 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) |