Blacketts on the Map

In addition to the town of Blackett, now a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, (see Blacket(t)s Down Under above) and 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 Creek in Prince Edward Island, Canada (named after William Blackett who farmed there); a Blackett’s Lake in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia (formed in 1902 when the Sydney River was dammed and probably named after a descendant of Walter William Blackett); and a Blackett Lake in the Lac La Biche region of Alberta.