| Feature Type: | Rapids - Fast-flowing section of a watercourse, usually with turbulent water or exposed rocks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Stuart Island, between Cardero Channel and Bute Inlet, Range 1 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°26'02"N, 125°08'11"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92K/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 6 November 1952 on 92K, as labelled on British Admiralty Chart 2870, 1864 et seq, and on BC map 2C, 1919 et seq, and as listed in the 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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The rapids are about one cable wide in the narrowest part, and the current rushes through with great strength - seven to ten knots; the flood tide from the westward, known as the Yuculta Rapids, makes it very hazardous for a vessl to pass through except at, or near, slack water. The local name for the rapids is "The Drain" Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1862 by British Admiralty surveyors in association with the noble house of Bute: after the Island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |