Tsinga Point


Tsinga Point (52˚43'00" 131˚34'00" N side of Lyell I, N of Atli Inlet, off E side of Moresby I, QCI). Named by the hydrographic service in 1957 for its tooth-like shape on the chart. Tsinga is an adaptation of the Haida word for tooth, taken from the vocabulary list in George Mercer Dawson’s 1880 monograph “On the Haida Indians of the QCI.” D

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