Zeballos Inlet is an extension of
Esperanza Inlet
Esperanza Inlet is an inlet on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Its entrance is located off the northwest side of Nootka Island and is defined by a line drawn from Tachu Point to Blind Reef. Until that definition w ...
in the North Island region of
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 ...
, Canada. Though inland relative to the outer coast, it is part of the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
as are other inlets on the west coast of Vancouver Island. At the head of the inlet are the
Zeballos River and the village municipality of
Zeballos, which was founded as a gold-mining town.
Name origin
The inlet was named by
Alessandro Malaspina
Brigadier Alejandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 – April 9, 1810) was a Spanish Navy officer and explorer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 to 1794, a scientific expedit ...
, after a lieutenant from his crew,
Ciriaco Ceballos, who explored this inlet in 1791 (Ceballos and Cevallos being other spellings of Zeballos in Spanish).
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Zeballos (village)"
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See also
* Zeballos (disambiguation)
* Cevallos (disambiguation)
References
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Inlets of British Columbia
Nootka Sound region
Spanish history in the Pacific Northwest