Sk'yaaw Kun
| Feature Type: | Point - Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E extremity of Burnaby Island, Queen Charlotte Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°22'21"N, 131°14'40"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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Poole Point adopted 14 June 1946 on 103/SE. Name changed 7 January 2022 to Sk’yaaw Kun on 103B/6 as recommended by The Council of the Haida Nation and supported by North Coast Regional District and Archipelago Search and Rescue. Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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Sk’yaaw Kun is the ancestral X̱aayda Kil name for this point (Advice from The Council of the Haida Nation, 2020). Source: included with note |