| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NE entrance to Browning Passage, just E of Tofino, Clayoquot Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°09'24"N, 125°52'47"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92F/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Morpheus Island adopted 3 April 1934 on C.340, as identified in 1914 survey of the island (Field Book 1173/14, ph 8), not "Morpeus Island" as mis-spelled on BC lands map 2A, 1920, and in 1930 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named 1914 by the land surveyor (name not cited), referring to the burial ground or cemetery here; "Morpheus" was chosen to avoid confusion with numerous other "Cemetery", "Graveyard" or "Burial" islands along the coast - in Greek mythology, Morpheus is the god of dreams or the god of sleep. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Cemetery Island" is the local name (April 1996 letter from Tofino historian Ken Gibson, file T.1.43) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |