Goletas Channel is a
channel
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Geography
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and
strait
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on the north side of
Vancouver Island
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in
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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.
It separates Vancouver Island from
Hope Island Hope Island may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Hope Island (Graham Land), an island on d'Urville Island
* Nadezhdy Island (Hope Island)
Australia
* Hope Island, Queensland, a suburb of Gold Coast City
* Hope Island (Tasmania)
* Hope Islands (Queen ...
and
Nigei Island, located just east of
Cape Sutil, the northernmost point of Vancouver Island. The waters of Goletas Channel are part of northern
Queen Charlotte Strait
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.
The
Nahwitti River empties into the western end of Goletas Channel, near the site of the historic
Kwakwakaʼwakw
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village and
maritime fur trade harbor known as
Nahwitti.
Goletas Channel was named by the Spanish naval officers
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano
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and
Cayetano Valdés y Flores during their 1792 voyage around Vancouver Island, after their ''goletas'' (a Spanish term approximately equivalent to English "schooner"), ''
Sutil'' and ''
Mexicana''. The channel was labeled ''Salida de las Goletas'' on their chart, published in 1793.
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{{British Columbia hydrography
Bodies of water of Vancouver Island
Channels of British Columbia
Northern Vancouver Island
Straits of British Columbia