Lime Point

Lime Point (52˚47'00" 128˚20'00" NE side of Griffin Passage, between Roderick I and Pooley I, N of Bella Bella). The records at BC’s Geographical Names Office sometimes offer intriguing but frustratingly inconclusive hints about the origins of certain names. This feature, for instance, is said to commemorate an “incident with a bucket of lime while surveying.” No other information is given. The name was adopted in 1949.

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