Georgina Point
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Other Names: | Point Comfort |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N point of Mayne Island, Cowichan Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°52'25"N, 123°17'29"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 29 December 1945 on C.3450, as labelled on British Admiralty Charts, 1859 et seq. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Georgina Mary Seymour, wife of Admiral, the Honorable Sir George F. Seymour, Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom. According to Captain Vancouver's journal, his party spent the night of June 12, 1792 in this vicinity and it could possibly have been on this point, for in 1881 a settler by the name of Collinson found an English penny of 1784 and the remains of a seaman's knife. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |