Logarithm Point


Logarithm Point (53˚33'00" 129˚57'00" NW entrance to Ala Passage, off W side of Pitt I). A 1921 coast triangulation party under Alfred Wright, a surveyor with the BC Lands Service, applied a number of surveying-related place names to this region. Other associated names, including this one, were added by the hydrographic service in the early 1950s. A logarithm, which represents the power to which a fixed base must be raised to produce a given number, can be used to simplify a complex...

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