Eliot Passage is a marine waterway between Village Island (E) and Pearl Island (W) in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, southwest of the opening of Knight Inlet. [1] The Kwakwaka'wakw village of Memkumlis, also known as Mamalillaculla after the name of the group of Kwakwaka'wakw whose principal village it is, is on its eastern shore on Village Island. [2]
The passage was named in 1866 by Daniel Pender, then 2nd Lieutenant aboard HMS Cleo under Captain Turnour. [3] Eliot served with the Royal Navy's Pacific Station from 1859 to 1862 and again in 1864 to 1868. [4]
50°37′25″N 126°35′09″W / 50.62361°N 126.58583°W
Eliot Passage is a marine waterway between Village Island (E) and Pearl Island (W) in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, southwest of the opening of Knight Inlet. [1] The Kwakwaka'wakw village of Memkumlis, also known as Mamalillaculla after the name of the group of Kwakwaka'wakw whose principal village it is, is on its eastern shore on Village Island. [2]
The passage was named in 1866 by Daniel Pender, then 2nd Lieutenant aboard HMS Cleo under Captain Turnour. [3] Eliot served with the Royal Navy's Pacific Station from 1859 to 1862 and again in 1864 to 1868. [4]
50°37′25″N 126°35′09″W / 50.62361°N 126.58583°W