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Xts'init Official Name

Pronounced: "sti NIT"

Feature Type: Site

Latitude: 55°22'20" Position at: CENTRE

Longitude: 129°40'45"

Gazetteer Map: 103P/5
Relative Location: E side Observatory Inlet at Perry Peninsula, Cassiar Land District

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Xts'init	Official Name
Pronounced:	"sti NIT"
Feature Type:	Site
Latitude:	55°22'20"	Position at: CENTRE
Longitude:	129°40'45"
Gazetteer Map:	103P/5
Relative Location:	E side Observatory Inlet at Perry Peninsula, Cassiar Land District
Return all features within 5Km proximity	View geographical name location on a 1:250K mapsheet

Origin Notes and History

Formerly Ktsinet Indian Reserve 23, Kincolith Band. Extinguished per Nisga'a Treaty and transferred to fee-simple interest: Lot 7227 Cassiar Land District. Name changed to Xts'init (site) per Nisga'a Treaty, Appendix F-3, effective 11 May 2000.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Means "across to" and may refer to the isthmus extending into Observatory Inlet, connecting Perry Peninsula to the mainland.
Source: Nisga'a Tribal Council / Ayuukhl Nisga'a Department, Aiyansh BC