Mount Matheson
| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N of Becher Bay, E of Sooke Basin, Sooke Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°21'31"N, 123°36'36"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92B/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Origin/significance not known. This feature is shown but not named on British Admiralty Chart #1906, detailing the 1846 surveys of Captain Kellet, wherein many neighbouring features were named by Kellett for his officers aboard HM surveying vessel Herald. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Adopted 2 May 1911 as an established local name, and as labelled on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map for the Hudson's Bay Company "South Eastern Districts of Vancouver Island". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |