Kitkiata 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

North Coast of British Columbia The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. As the entire western continental coastline of Canada along the Pacific Ocean is in the pr ...

, Canada, off the west side of

Douglas Channel Douglas Channel is one of the principal inlets (or fjords) of the British Columbia Coast, into which the Kitimat River flows. The channel was named in honour of Sir James Douglas, the first governor of the Colony of British Columbia. The offici ...

. Kitkiata Creek flows into the inlet from the north at . Up it at is Kitkiata Lake. Located on Kitkiata Inlet near the mouth of the Quaal River, which flows southeast into the head of the inlet at , at . is Quaal Indian Reserve No. 3A. Also on the inlet is Kitkahta Indian Reserve No. 1 at .BC Names/GeoBC entry "Kitkahta 1 (Indian reserve)"
/ref> Reserves in this area, including those named on the Quaal River article, are under the governance of the

Hartley Bay Indian Band The Gitga'at First Nation is a Canadian First Nation, also known as the Hartley Bay First Nation. The members of the Gitga'at First Nation are often referred to as Gitka'a'ata. The population of Gitk’a’ata peoples living in Hartley Bay is ap ...

of the Gitga'at.

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