Actaeon Sound
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Actaeon Sound is a sound
in the Queen Charlotte Strait
region of the Central Coast of British Columbia
, on the north side of Drury Inlet, to the north of the town of Port McNeill.
Sound (geography)
In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or it may be defined as a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
in the Queen Charlotte Strait
Queen Charlotte Strait
Queen Charlotte Strait is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It connects Queen Charlotte Sound with Johnstone Strait, Discovery Passage and then to the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound...
region of the Central Coast of British Columbia
British Columbia Coast
The British Columbia Coast or BC Coast is Canada's western continental coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The usage is synonymous with the term West Coast of Canada....
, on the north side of Drury Inlet, to the north of the town of Port McNeill.
Name origin
"Name adopted in 1865 by Captain Pender as suggested by W. Blakeney, RN, paymaster aboard the Beaver, after his former vessel, HM ActaeonHMS Actaeon (1831)HMS Actaeon was a 26-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-Career:Actaeon was designed in 1827 by the School of Naval Architecture, and launched from Portsmouth Dockyard on 31 January 1831...
; Blakeney had served aboard the 26-gun frigate Actaeon during the latter's commission in China....."