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Eliot Passage
Marine waterway in Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Name origin
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]
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