Dare Point
| 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: | SW side of Vancouver Island between Carmanah Point and Nitinat Lake, Renfrew Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°38'55"N, 124°48'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 4 October 1956 on 92C/10, as labelled on BC map 2A, 1938 et seq, and as identified in the 1953 BC Gazetteer. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Refers to the 3-masted schooner Dare, out of home port North Bend, Oregon; sailing from San Francisco to Tacoma when she was wrecked 2 1/2 miles west of Carmanah Point, 23 December 1880. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |