| Feature Type: | Strait - Passage, usually navigable, connecting two larger bodies of water. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Between Burnaby and Moresby Islands, Queen Charlotte Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'38"N, 131°21'24"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103B/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Burnaby Strait adopted 7 March 1933 on Geological Survey sheet 278A, as labelled on Francis Poole's 1862 map of Skincuttle Inlet. Name changed 7 January 2022 to G̱aysiiG̱as Ḵ’iidsii on 103B/6 as recommended by The Council of the Haida Nation and supported by North Coast Regional District, Archipelago Search and Rescue, and Canadian Coast Guard. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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G̱aysiiG̱as Ḵ'iidsii is the ancestral X̱aayda Kil name for this strait (Advice from The Council of the Haida Nation, 2020). Source: included with note |