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Mount Frederick William Mount Frederick William is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia Canada. The mountain was named during the 1860 survey by which charted all of the are ...

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Fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Icel ...

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, about northwest of

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, and the third of such inlets north of the 49th parallel, the first of which is

Burrard Inlet french: Baie Burrard , image = Burrard Inlet 201807.jpg , image_size = 250px , alt = , caption = Aerial view of Burrard Inlet , image_bathymetry = Burrard-Inlet-map-en.svg , alt_bathymetry ...

, Vancouver's harbour.

Geography

It stretches from its head at the mouth of the short ()

Skwawka River The Skwawka River is a medium-sized river in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, flowing southeast into the head of Queens Reach, which is the uppermost end of Jervis Inlet. The pass at the head of the river, w ...

to its opening into the

Strait of Georgia The Strait of Georgia (french: Détroit de Géorgie) or the Georgia Strait is an arm of the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada and the extreme northwestern mainland coast ...

near

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. It is the deepest fjord on the British Columbia coast with a maximum depth of . The inlet is made up of three arms or reaches: *

Prince of Wales Reach Prince of Wales Reach is the first arm of the Jervis Inlet and is located within the Coast Mountain Range of British Columbia, Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by who charted all of the area and was named after Albert Edward ...

Princess Royal Reach Princess Royal Reach is the second arm of Jervis Inlet and is located within the Coast Mountain Range of British Columbia, Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by which charted all of the area and named the arm after Victoria ("Vi ...

Queens Reach Queens Reach is the last arm of the Jervis Inlet and is located within the Coast Mountain Range of British Columbia, Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by which charted all of the area and was named after Queen Victoria ...

At its uppermost stretch is Queens Reach, which takes a sharp right-angle often seen in

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areas, to become Princess Royal Reach. Both reaches are about in length. The flanks of the fjord and the valley of the

, which feeds the head of the inlet, are the site of two of Canada's highest waterfalls,

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() and

Alfred Creek Falls Alfred Creek, at one time known as Glacier Creek, is a creek flowing off the east flank of Mount Alfred, southeast into the lower reaches of the Skwawka River near its mouth into the head of Jervis Inlet, which is on the South Coast of British Colu ...

at . The most frequented and best known inlet in the area is

Princess Louisa Inlet Princess Louisa Inlet on the British Columbia Coast is in length and lies at the north east end of Jervis Inlet. It is entered through Malibu Rapids off Queens Reach past Malibu, a former private resort and now youth camp. A portion of the area ...

, with the Malibu Club and

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Camp at the

Malibu Rapids The Malibu Rapids forms the entrance to Princess Louisa Inlet and is also connected to the Jervis Inlet. The tidal flow of both inlets pass through this narrow and shallow passage that creates a fast moving (approximately ) and strong tidal rap ...

, the entrance of the inlet, and

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, including

Chatterbox Falls Chatterbox Falls is a waterfall in British Columbia, Canada, located at the head or end of Princess Louisa Inlet. It is part of Loquilts River which empties into the inlet. The falls are a popular destination for boaters around the world and are ...

, at its head. At the mouth of Jervis Inlet a passenger and vehicle ferry operated by

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connects Earls Cove (on the upper end of the

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and lower

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) with Saltery Bay (on the bottom end of the

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and upper Sunshine Coast). The mouth of

Sechelt Inlet Sechelt Inlet formerly ''Seechelt Inlet'' is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. The inlet is significant in that it almost makes an island of what is instead the Sechelt Peninsula, whose isthmus is at the town of Sechelt at ...

connects with Jervis Inlet in the area of Earls Cove. Population is sparse on the shores of Jervis Inlet and there is no road access to the area. Industry includes small operations in aquaculture, commercial fishing and logging, but a substantial number of independent power projects are expected to develop in coming years.

Climate

History

The head of Jervis Inlet was once a seasonal settlement of one of the four groups that make up today's amalgamated Shishalh, who called it ''xénichen'' (often anglicized as Hunaechin).

George Vancouver Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are ...

named the inlet after the 1791–1795 expedition to search for the fabled

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. In the

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tradition, Vancouver named this main waterway after his friend Rear Admiral Sir John Jervis (Earl of St. Vincent) for his victory over the Spanish fleet on February 14, 1797 at

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in Portugal. He named St. Vincent's Bay (near the entrance of Jervis Inlet) after the location of the battle, St. Vincent Bay.Hitz, Charles W.(2003).''Through the Rapids - The History of Princess Louisa Inlet'', p.30
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., Kirkland, Washington. . The three specific reaches of the inlet and mountains were named in the 1860 survey by , which charted the known area in honour of members of Queen Victoria's family. The waterways named during this survey mission were:

, and

. Also named were the main mountains of the area: *

Mount Alfred Mount Alfred is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm and head of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is the highest in the portion of the mainland between Jervis a ...

* Mount Arthur * Mount Wellington * Mount Alice * Mount Victoria * Mount Helena * Mount Albert In the early 1900s, logging and commercial fishing developed in the Jervis Inlet area. Relatively large logging camps operated at Goliath Bay, Vancouver Bay and Hotham Sound, commercial fishing was conducted by owner-operators based in Egmont,

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and Saltery Bay, and several fish-processing plants operated in Egmont, Pender Harbour and Saltery Bay.

Gallery

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explores

of the Jervis Inlet. File:MtArt.JPG, Mount Arthur and

from the entrance of the

. File:Dusk.jpg, Jervis Inlet at dusk. File:MtAlfred.JPG,

seen from the inlet. File:Alfred.JPG,

from a logging road along the inlet. File:Mt Arthur.JPG, Mount Arthur rising above the Jervis Inlet

References

External links

Deep Water Properties of Jervis Inlet
Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

{{British Columbia hydrography Fjords of British Columbia Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) Inlets of British Columbia