Point No Point

Point No Point (48˚23'30" 123˚59'10" Between Sooke and Jordan R, S end of Vancouver I). Point No Point first appears on a map of Vancouver I in 1897. Its official name—adopted in 1957—is Point No Point (Glacier Point). On the 1900 edition of Admiralty chart #1911 it appears as Glacier Point (Point No Point) instead. It is not known how the unusual, double-barrelled moniker arose. The more familiar name supposedly refers to the feature’s ambiguous or deceptive appearance when viewed from...

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