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Muchalat Inlet
Muchalat Inlet is an oceanographic/geographical region on the western coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Muchalat Inlet extends from Nootka Sound to the east, terminating at Muchalat Bay. Located broadly south of Gold River, British Columbia, the area borders Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations reserve lands. The inlet is somewhat under-researched, with a complex runoff/renewal cycle supported by drainage from mountain terrain in the surrounding region. The inlet's maximum depth is and serves as a staging area for log exports, fishing, a ferry, and seasonal tourism and sporting activities. “Muchalat” is the current conventional spelling for mapping purposes, distinct from the current English spelling of the Muchalaht First Nations band for which it is named. Though remote, the region gained some notice in 2004–2006 during the Luna (orca), Luna incident, in which policies regarding an orca separated from its pod led to confrontations between the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muchalat Inlet
Muchalat Inlet is an oceanographic/geographical region on the western coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Muchalat Inlet extends from Nootka Sound to the east, terminating at Muchalat Bay. Located broadly south of Gold River, British Columbia, the area borders Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations reserve lands. The inlet is somewhat under-researched, with a complex runoff/renewal cycle supported by drainage from mountain terrain in the surrounding region. The inlet's maximum depth is and serves as a staging area for log exports, fishing, a ferry, and seasonal tourism and sporting activities. “Muchalat” is the current conventional spelling for mapping purposes, distinct from the current English spelling of the Muchalaht First Nations band for which it is named. Though remote, the region gained some notice in 2004–2006 during the Luna (orca), Luna incident, in which policies regarding an orca separated from its pod led to confrontations between the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are of land. The island is the largest by area and the most populous along the west coasts of the Americas. The southern part of Vancouver Island and some of the nearby Gulf Islands are the only parts of British Columbia or Western Canada to lie south of the 49th parallel. The southeast part of the island has one of the warmest climates in Canada, and since the mid-1990s has been mild enough in a few areas to grow Mediterranean crops such as olives and lemons. The population of Vancouver Island was 864,864 as of 2021. Nearly half of that population (~400,000) live in the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria on the southern tip of the island, which includes Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Campb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootka Sound
Nootka Sound () is a sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically known as King George's Sound. It separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island, part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It played a historically important role in the maritime fur trade. History The inlet is part of the traditional territory of the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth people. They call it ''Mowichat''. John R. Jewitt is an Englishman who describes the area in some detail in a memoir about his years as a captive of chief Maquinna from 1802 to 1805. European exploration and trade On August 8, 1774, the Spanish Navy ship ''Santiago'', under Juan Pérez, entered and anchored in the inlet. Although the Spanish did not land, natives paddled to the ship to trade furs for abalone shells from California. Pérez named the entrance to Nootka Sound ''Surgidero de San Lorenzo''. The word ''surgidero'' means "source". When Esteban José ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold River, British Columbia
Gold River is a village municipality located close to the geographic centre of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. In terms of the Island's human geography it is considered to be part of the "North Island", even though it technically is on the Island's west coast. History Taking advantage of its deep water and abundant forests, Gold River developed in 1967 as a prototypical logging and pulp and paper industry community. Gold River quickly sprang into prosperity and established excellent community facilities. When shifting world markets brought the mill closure in 1998, many of Gold River's inhabitants were forced to relocate. Since then, the village has attempted to capitalize on its idyllic setting among picturesque mountains, lakes, rivers, ocean, and forests to develop tourism and sport fishing as its main economic supports. Currently, Gold River serves as a base for such famous activities as the Nootka Island trek, hiking the Elk Lake trail and mountain climbing G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations
The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a First Nations government on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a member nation of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which spans all Nuu-chah-nulth-aht peoples except for the Pacheedaht First Nation. Their main reserve is at Gold River, British Columbia but the Mowachaht are originally from Yuquot on Nootka Sound, known to history as Friendly Cove, scene of the Nootka Incident and, later, the negotiations and eventual implementation of the Nootka Conventions between Britain and Spain, hosted by the Mowachaht chief Maquinna. Name The Mowachaht (pronounced ), which translates to people of the deer, originate from a place called Friendly Cove, or Yuquot (translates to "Wind comes from all directions"). The name Muchalaht translates to the people who hover over the river or the people over the river. History In the mid-to-late 18th century, first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luna (orca)
L98 or Luna ( – 10 March 2006), also known as Tsux'iit, was an orca born in Puget Sound. After being separated from his mother, ''Splash'' (1985–2008) while still young, Luna spent five years in Nootka Sound, an ocean inlet of western Vancouver Island, where he had extensive human contact and became recognized internationally. Although Luna was healthy and his presence in the area attracted extensive publicity, there were concerns that his behavior could endanger watercraft and people. After years of debate, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) authorized an effort in June 2004 to rescue Luna and return him to his pod. The plan was opposed by the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations, who believed Luna was the reincarnation of a former Band government, chief. Remaining alone in Nootka Sound, Luna was killed accidentally by a tugboat propeller on March 10, 2006. Early life L98 Luna was born into a population known as the Southern Resident Killer Whale, Southern R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisheries And Oceans Canada
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO; ) is a department of the Government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters. Its mandate includes responsibility for the conservation and sustainable use of Canada's fisheries resources while continuing to provide safe, effective and environmentally sound marine services that are responsive to the needs of Canadians in a global economy. The federal government is constitutionally mandated for the conservation and protection of fisheries resources in all Canadian fisheries waters. However, the department is largely focused on the conservation and allotment of harvests of salt water fisheries on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts of Canada. The department works toward the conservation and protection of inland freshwater fisheries, such as on the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg, through cooperative agree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inlets Of British Columbia
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 marine geography, the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual channel between an enclosed bay and the open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds, e.g., Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Karmsund (''sund'' is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e.g., Portland Canal, Lynn Canal, Hood Canal, and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel. Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
