Kumealon Inlet is an
inlet
An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Overview
In ...
on the
Coast
A coast (coastline, shoreline, seashore) is the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake. Coasts are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape and by aquatic erosion, su ...
of
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...
,
Canada
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. It lies on the eastern side of the north end of
Grenville Channel
Grenville Channel is a strait on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, between Pitt Island and the mainland to the south of Prince Rupert. It is part of the Inside Passage shipping route, about long and is wide at its narrowest point.
T ...
facing
Pitt Island
Pitt Island ( Moriori: , ) is the second largest island in New Zealand's Chatham Islands, with an area of . It lies about to the east of New Zealand's main islands, and about to the southeast of Chatham Island, from which it is separated by ...
.
Kumealon Inlet sits between the Ecstall
Pluton
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and the Grenville Channel
shear zone
In geology, a shear zone is a thin zone within the Earth's crust or upper mantle that has been strongly deformed, due to the walls of rock on either side of the zone slipping past each other. In the upper crust, where rock is brittle, the shear ...
, and is bounded by rocks dating to the
Albian
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(102.6±3.7
Ma).
Features
Connected features to the inlet are:
*Kumealon Island, located on the north side of the entrance to the inlet at
*Kumealon Lagoon, a small arm on the north side of the inlet at , connected to it via:
*Kumealon Narrows, a short narrows at
*Kumealon Creek, a short creek which feeds northwest into Kumealon Lagoon, entering it at
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Kumealon Creek"
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Images
File:Looking Westward along Kumealon Inlet.webp, Looking westward from the head of Kumealon Inlet towards the entrance
File:Kumealon Island, on the north side of the entrance of the inlet.png, Kumealon Island
File:Looking Westward along Kumealon Inlet in the Morning.webp, Looking westward along Kumealon Inlet in the morning
See also
*Inside Passage
The Inside Passage () is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American Fjordland. The route extends from southeastern Alaska in the United St ...
* Baker Inlet
References
North Coast of British Columbia
Inlets of British Columbia
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