Clio Channel is a marine waterway running southwest to northeast between Turnour and

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s in the

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region of the

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Name origin

Clio Channel was named c.1866 by

Captain Pender Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard , and from 1857 to 1870. Pender was recorded as the second master of the admiralty survey vessel, HMS ''Plumper'', in 1857 when h ...

for , which was commanded by Captain Nicholas E.B. Turnour, the namesake of Turnour Island, during the vessel's second commission with the

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of the

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from 1864 to 1868,

Clio Bay Clio Bay (, ) is the 1.8 km wide bay indenting for 1.7 km the west coast of Lavoisier Island in Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is formed as a result of the retreat of Lavoisier Island's ice cap in the early 21st century. ...

near

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was also named for the ''Clio''.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Clio Bay"
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