| 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 end of Bawden Bay, E of Ahousat, Flores Island, Clayoquot Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°17'03"N, 126°01'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92E/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1934 on C.348, as labelled on BC map 2A, 1913. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with Bawden Bay, in turn named after Charles Bawden, RN ( - 1876), master of HMS Bacchante, 51 guns. Bawden was on this station 1860 - 1863. The north point was dubbed Charles Point (since adopted as Bawden Point), and the south point was dubbed Clifford Point, after Bawden's son, also an officer in the navy. Source: Wagner, Henry R; The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America; University of California Press, Berkley, 1937 |
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After Clifford Bawden, RN, son of Commander Charles Bawden, RN. Entered the navy as master's assistant, 1863; Navigating sub-lieutenant, 1868; Navigating lieutenant, 1876; Staff commander 1887. Staff Commander HMS Warspite, Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, falgship of Rear Admiral Charles Frederick Hotham, commander in chief. On this station 1890-1893; Staff captain 1902; appointed to Devonport dockyard, assistant to staff captain and Queen's harbour master, 1902. Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |