Blacketts on the Map

In addition to Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands (see Naval Blacketts), there is a Mount Blackett, (after which an East African Railways locomotive was named), in Rift Valley, Kenya, a Blackett’s Ridge, (named around 1937 after the appropriately named Hill Blackett Jr., a student at the Southern Arizona School for Boys), near Tucson, Arizona, a Blackett’s Lake in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia (formed in 1902 when the Sydney River was dammed) and a Blackett Lake in the Lac La Biche region of Alberta.