Queen Charlotte Sound ( French : Bassin de la Reine-Charlotte ) is a sound of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia , Canada, between Vancouver Island in the south and Haida Gwaii in the north. It merges with Hecate Strait in the north and Queen Charlotte Strait in the south.
13-411: Resolution Bay ( Māori : Atapu ) is a large bay in the outer stretch of Queen Charlotte Sound , north east of Endeavour Inlet , which it meets at Scott Point . There was likely Māori settlement in the bay prior to the 1850s. Midden sites have shown a large amount of bone, argillite and shellfish remains, though this could also indicate a popular Māori gathering or lunch spot. Resolution Bay
26-459: A boat excursion up Goletas Channel Strange saw an opening ahead and named it Queen Charlotte Sound. The body of water he named was what is today known as Queen Charlotte Strait. For some time Queen Charlotte Strait was also called Queen Charlotte Sound, until 1920 when the BCGNIS and Hydrographic Service distinguished between Queen Charlotte Sound and Queen Charlotte Strait. George Vancouver , who used
39-737: A holiday camp was established, owned and operated by Douglas and Libby Brown from the 1960s after leaving an architecture business in Wellington . Today the majority of the land has gone back to the Crown, and the Resolution Bay Lodge is a notable coffee stop along the Queen Charlotte Track . G. C. Hayter reports the bay just within Scott Point was once home to a fisherman who "developed the unpleasant habit" of killing his children. Hayter reports
52-470: Is an unofficial name. The peninsula adjacent to it has been dubbed "Bottle Rock Peninsula" and was home to a ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators) research facility as of March 2020. Schoolhouse Bay sits at the back of Resolution Bay. The bay was formerly home to the local school, which operated on and off, and had twelve pupils in the 1920s from families in Endeavour Inlet and Resolution Bay. The school building
65-514: Is part of the Inside Passage shipping route. According to the BCGNIS , the northern boundary of Queen Charlotte Sound is defined as a line running from the southernmost point of Price Island to Cape St James on Kunghit Island , the southernmost point of Haida Gwaii. The western boundary is a line from Cape St James to Cape Scott at the north end of Vancouver Island. The southern boundary runs along
78-522: The bay over the years. Family names such as Turner, Ewing, Vipond, Adams, Pullman, McManaway and Annear are found throughout the bays history. According to the McManaways, the Murchison earthquake had dramatic effects, reporting it felt as if the hills were going to come down. The farms produced a large amount of butter, which was exported to Picton in such quantities as 130 pounds (59 kg) a week. Eventually
91-744: The coast of Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to Cape Sutil , then to Cape Caution on the mainland. An older definition placed the northern boundary as a line from the southernmost point of Aristazabal Island to Cape St James. Queen Charlotte Sound was named by James Strange on August 5, 1786, in honour of the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Strange was the leader of a fur trading expedition of two vessels, Captain Cook , under Captain Henry Lawrie, and Experiment , under Captain John Guise. During
104-580: The 💕 Queen Charlotte Sound is the name of two channels: Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada) , located in British Columbia Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui , located in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
117-424: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Queen_Charlotte_Sound&oldid=1008524656 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada) Queen Charlotte Sound
130-531: The man eventually fell to his death in Picton gaol. Atapu is a name of some debate. It has been suggested it should be spelt Ātapu , Otapu meaning "a sacred place", or Atapo meaning "early dawn". Alexander Wyclif Reed calls it futile to speculate the name’s meaning, as both ata and pu have a plethora of meanings. Resolution Bay is a reference to James Cook 's ship HMS Resolution which he brought on his second and third voyages. The bay
143-436: Was eventually washed away by a slip. Parts of the Queen Charlotte Track were once bridle paths used by children to ride ponies to the school. Whātapu can be split into two Māori words. Firstly, whā , meaning " harakeke leaf", and tapu , meaning "sacred". Together whātapu means "sacred harakeke leaves". The Atapu name may have been derived from this point. Queen Charlotte Sound From Misplaced Pages,
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#1732875805090156-521: Was likely dubbed such by Captain John Lort Stokes in the early 1850s. Cook initially dubbed the bay Shag Cove during his first expedition, a name seconded on Peter Fannin's map from his second voyage, aboard HMS Adventure . Bottle Rock sits east of Resolution Bay, just south of the bay’s eastern tip. Beneath the waves, Bottle Rock connects to the point. The rock’s Māori name, Akatārewa , means "hanging vines" or "trailing vines". Bottle Rock
169-474: Was part of the Waitohi Purchase in 1850, along with Picton . No Māori reserves were set up at the time, and the majority of the land was taken over by farmers. William Woodgate is said to have been the first to find stibnite in the bay, and mining it for antimony became a thriving local industry in the neighbouring Endeavour Inlet . A timber mill, several farms, and an on and off aided school operated in
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