Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park is a

provincial park Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other countries. They are typically open to the ...

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, that protects six separate sites along three inlets north of the city of

Sechelt Sechelt (, Sechelt language, shíshálh Language: ch'atlich) is a district municipality located on the lower Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately northwest of Vancouver, it is accessible from ma ...

. The six sites are located at various locations on

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 ...

and its two side arms,

Salmon Inlet Salmon Inlet, formerly ''Salmon Arm'', is a fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in the British Columbia, Canada. Its companion, Narrows Inlet, another side-inlet of Sechelt Inlet, lies roughly north. Misery and Sechelt Creeks flow freely in ...

and Narrows Inlet. Established initially as a recreation area in 1980, it was converted to a park in 1999, consisting of approximately in total. The park sites are only accessible by boat or

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, and are popular destinations for kayaking, paddling, scuba diving and viewing wildlife. Chaudière Artificial Reef is located near Kunechin Point, one of the six park sites. Sunk in 1992, HMCS Chaudière was the first Canadian

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sunk for use as an

artificial reef An artificial reef (AR) is a human-created freshwater or marine benthic structure. Typically built in areas with a generally featureless bottom to promote Marine biology#Reefs, marine life, it may be intended to control #Erosion prevention, erosio ...

Geography

The six individual sites within the park are:

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BC Parks infopage
* Provincial parks of British Columbia Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) Protected areas established in 1980 1980 establishments in British Columbia Marine parks of Canada {{BritishColumbia-park-stub

Geography

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