Actaeon Sound is a

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in the

Queen Charlotte Strait , image = Canadian pilot, near Port Hardy BC.jpg , alt = , caption = A pilot boat plies Queen Charlotte Strait near Port Hardy , image_bathymetry = Locmap-QCS-Hecate-Dixon.png , alt_bathymetry = ...

region of the

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, branching off northeasterly from the north side of

Drury Inlet Drury inlet is an inlet in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, extending west from Wells Passage to the northwest of North Broughton Island, northwest of the town of Port Hardy. Branching off to th ...

near its head on the mainland of British Columbia to the north of the town of

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, on the opposite side of

. On the south side of the sound is the Bond Peninsula at , which is formed by a sidewater, Bond Lagoon at , both presumably named in 1865 by Captain Pender, in association with other Admiralty and HMS ''Actaeon''-related names. On the southeast side of Actress Passage at , which is the waterway connecting Actaeon Sound into Drury Inlet is Charlotte Point at , which was first published on Admiralty maps in 1865 like other locations in the area. Dove Island sits in the middle of the opening, on the Drury Inlet side. Located at , all of it comprises

Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12 Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primaril ...

, 8.1 ha., which is under the administration of the Gwawaenuk Tribe band government of the Kwakwaka'wakw group of peoples. It is believed to have been named for the gunboat HMS ''Dove'', commanded by Lieut. Cdr James Bullock, which was deployed as tender to HMS ''Actaeon'' in the East Indies and Chinese waters in later years. On the north side of the lower reaches of Actaeon Sound, across from the Bond Peninsula, is

Mount Bullock Mount Bullock, 36 km northeast of Port Hardy, is a mountain in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, standing on the north side of the lower reaches of Actaeon Sound, which is a sidewater of Drury Inlet. Lee Lake is to its north ...

, at , noted by BC names, citing the Canadian Geographic Names Board, "Listed in "Burns Naval Biography", 1849".

Name origin

Name adopted in 1865 by Captain Pender as suggested by W. Blakeney, RN, paymaster aboard the ''
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'', after his former vessel, HM ''Actaeon''; Blakeney had served aboard the 26-gun frigate ''Actaeon'' during the latter's commission in China.....Walbran, John T; ''British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history''; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)

References

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