Obscure places

[Chris J. Durden]

>Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:02:52 -0600
>To: Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Obscure places
>In-Reply-To: <60F1FEB31CA3D211A1B60008C7A45F43088F2C71 at blaze.bcsc.GOV.BC.CA>
>
>A very useful site. I looked up 'Rapides des Papillons' which I named in
1961 for the large aggregation of PEHR KALM'S SWALLOWTAIL, *Pterourus
antilochus* (Linne, 1758), Verity, 1916 = *Pterourus canadensis*
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1906), CANADIAN TIGER SWALLOWTAIL. I submitted new
names for unnamed features on our geologic map, half in English, half in
French. The French names were accepted, the English names were not even
though the region in question was not part of Quebec until 1911. The next
names I submitted included Ruisseau des Grenouilles (frog crik) after the
pickerell frogs I found there of course. 'Ruisseau des Grenouilles' is also
retreived by search. These are obscure features in uninhabited territory. 
>........Chris Durden
>
>At 12:47  6/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>Its a big world with a lot of geography.   
>>http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/query.html
>>Easy to query site which gives the normal bumph about latlongs but the nifty
>>feature is that you can select from two overview maps-national scale or
>>regional scale to provide a nice picture of "X marks the spot" of where a
>>place is.  I tried this with Distincta Peak, Yukon (home ground of Boloria
>>distincta) and White River, Yukon (Oeneis cairnesi) and there is no question
>>that a picture is worth a thousand words -- and a million numbers for those
>>of us who are numerically challenged :-)
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio. 


 
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