Loap Point

Loap Point (52˚43'00" 129˚01'00" N entrance to Kent Inlet, SW side of Princess Royal I). Loap is the Tsimshian First Nation word for stone or rock, according to the 1884 Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of BC, by William F Tolmie and George M Dawson. Formerly known as Philip Point, after John Maison Philip, a member of the W coast hydrographic survey staff in the early 1940s, but renamed in 1944.

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