Janit Reef

Janit Reef (48˚50'00" 125˚22'00" S of Broken Group, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). The hydrographic service decided in 1945 to honour a Russian immigrant who settled in this vicinity in the 1910s and provided surveyors with valuable information about the region’s uncharted shoals and rocks. According to author R Bruce Scott, the name is probably misspelled and refers to either John Janet (1877–1965), who married Natalie Greenthal (1880–1946) in 1911 and died at Victoria, or Julius...

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