Fjords Fjords Burrard Inlet is a relatively shallow-sided coastal fjord in extreme southwestern British Columbia, formed during the last Ice Age, and dividing the City of Vancouver and the rest of the low-lying Burrard Peninsula from the tall North Shore mountains in North Vancouver and West Vancouver, which extend north into the Coast Range. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burrard Inlet"
Bute Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is 80 km long from its head at the mouths of the Homathko and Southgate Rivers to the continental headlands at its mouth, where it is nearly blocked by Stuart Island, and it averages about 4 km in width. If measured to the end of the channel (Calm Channel and Sutil Channel) from there to the Georgia Strait its length is c. 110 km. At that point, the former path of the Bute Glacier is flanked by Quadra Island (W) and Cortes Island (E). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bute Inlet"
College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound, Alaska. Sixteen tidewater glaciers, most named after renowned US East Coast colleges, make this a picturesque destination for cruise ships. College Fjord was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which time the glaciers were named. ...more on Wikipedia about "College Fjord"
Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest inlets of the British Columbia Coast, its name lasting for 105km from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. The Dean River, one of the main rivers of the Coast Mountains and one of the few rivers to pierce that range from the Chilcotin Plateau, enters Dean Channel about 9.5km below the head of the inlet, at the First Nations community of Kimsquit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dean Channel"
Doubtful Sound ( ) is a fjord on the south west corner of New Zealand, close to the smaller but more accessible Milford Sound. The steep hills are known for their hundreds of waterfalls during the rainy season. The waterways are known for dolphin sightings. It is common for dolphins to chase tour boats. ...more on Wikipedia about "Doubtful Sound"
Douglas Channel is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. Its official length from the head of Kitimat Arm, where the aluminum smelter town of Kitimat to Wright Sound, on the Inside Passage ferry route, is 90 km. The actual length of the fjord's waterway includes waters between there and the open waters of the Hecate Strait outside the coastal archipelago, comprising another 60km for 140km in total. ...more on Wikipedia about "Douglas Channel"
Dusky Sound is a fjord on the south west corner of New Zealand, in Fiordland National Park. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dusky Sound"
A fjord (sometimes written fiord, notably in New Zealand English) is a glacially overdeepened valley, usually narrow and steep-sided, extending below sea level and filled with salt water. However, many fjords are called "canals", "inlets" and "sounds" even when they are fjord-like in character, e.g. Hood Canal and Burrard Inlet in North America's Pacific Northwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fjord"
The Gardner Canal is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. Technically a side-inlet of the larger Douglas Channel, the Gardner is still 90 km in length in its own right; total length of the waterways converging on the Douglas Channel is 320km, making it one of the largest fjord-complexes in the world. The entrance to the Gardner Canal is hidden behind Hawkesbury Island, and is accessed via Devastation Sound or Varney Passage which form the northeast and southeast flanks of that island. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gardner Canal"
Hood Canal, despite its name, is a fjord off Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington, with an average width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and an average depth of 500 feet (152 m). It extends for about 50 miles (80 km) southwest from the entrance between Foulweather Bluff and Tala Point to Union, where it turns northeast and extends for about 15 miles (24 km) to Belfair. It separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula for its entire length. U.S. Highway 101 runs along its western shore south of Quilcene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hood Canal"
Jervis Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is about 90 km in length from its head at the mouth of the short (18 km) Skwakwa River to its opening into the Strait of Georgia near Texada Island. Its mouth is about 95 km northwest of downtown Vancouver. Its uppermost stretch is Queens Reach, which does a right-angle to become Princess Royal Reach; both reaches are about 20 km in length. A side inlet off of Queens Reach, Princess Louisa Inlet, is home to a recreational retreat named Malibu and is also a busy destination for recreational watercraft because of the small inlet's stunning scenery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jervis Inlet"
Khutzeymateen Inlet is one of the lesser principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast, but it is important in being part of the first area in Canada protected to preserve grizzly bears and their habitat (created August 1994). Also spelled K’tzim-a-Deen in the Tsimshian language of the Gitsiis peeople, the inlet and the park-sanctuary surrounding it are between the mouths of the Skeena and Nass Rivers; the Khutzeymateen is the next inlet north from Work Inlet, which is the north side of the Tsimpsean Peninslula of "Greater Prince Rupert". The inlet's mouth opens onto a sidewater of Portland Inlet, Steamer Passage, which lies behind Merville Island, home to the community of the same name. The inlet is fed by the Khutzeymateen River. Over 50 grizzlies frequent the river and the inlet's shores, and the inlet's other wildlife includes moose, shorebirds, waterfowl, orca (killer whale), humpback whales and more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khutzeymateen Inlet"
Kingcome Inlet is one of the lesser principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast. It is sixth in sequence of the major saltwater fjords north from the 49th Parallel near Vancouver and similar in width (2.5km avg) to longer inlets such as Knight Inlet and Bute Inlet, but it is only 35km in length from the mouth of the Kingcome River to Sutlej Channel, which ultimately connects around Broughton Island to the main regional waterway of the Queen Charlotte Strait. Kingcome Inlet has a short side inlet, Wakeman Sound, fed the Wakeman River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kingcome Inlet"
Knight Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast, and the largest of the major inlets in the southern part of the Coast. It is fifth in sequence of the great saltwater inlets north from the 49th Parallel near Vancouver, but it is the first whose outflow points away from the Strait of Georgia, opening into Queen Charlotte Strait at the Kwakiutl First Nation community of Mamalilaculla, just east of Malcolm Island and the fishing town of Port McNeill on Vancouver Island, and just north of the opening of the upper end of Johnstone Strait, which separates Vancouver Island from the archipelago between it and the mainland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Knight Inlet"
Loughborough Inlet is one of the lesser principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It penetrates the Coast Mountains on the north side of the Desolation Sound archipelago, running about 35 km from its head at the mouth of the Stafford River to Chancellor Channel, which is on the north side of Thurlow Island. 14 km west along Chancellor Channel is the upper end of the Johnstone Strait. The inlet is about 2.5km in average width. The mouth of the inlet is midway between Bute Inlet (E) and Knight Inlet (W); because of the arrangement of the ranges separating them, the upper end of Loughborough Inlet is only about 10km from the nearest waters of Knight inlet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Loughborough Inlet"
Milford Sound (Piopiotahi) is located on the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Although called Milford Sound, it is more accurately classified as a fjord. Milford Sound is situated within the Fiordland National Park which is in turn part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Milford Sound"
North Bentinck Arm is short inlet about 17 km in length in the central British Columbia Coast. It is a sidewater of Burke Channel and is linked via that waterway and Labouchere Channel to Dean Channel, which is one of the largest inlets of the BC Coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "North Bentinck Arm"
Sechelt Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast and the third of such inlets north from the 49th Parallel, the first of which is Burrard Inlet, Vancouver's harbour. 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 at the head of the inlet. The isthmus is less than 1.2km in distance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sechelt Inlet"
Seymour Inlet is one of the lesser of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. Unlike larger inlets such as Knight or Bute, it is not flanked by mountains but by relatively low, but still rugged, coastal hill-country and forms a maze of complex, narrow waterways and tidal pools and lagoons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seymour Inlet"
Toba Inlet is one of the lesser, but still principal, inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is fourth in the series north from the 49th Parallel which begins with Burrard Inlet, which is the harbour for the city of Vancouver. Between it and Jervis Inlet to its west, however, there is a freshwater fjord, Powell Lake, which has been augmented by a small hydro project to supply power to the large pulp mill at Powell River, the principal town of the Malaspina Peninsula of the upper Sunshine Coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Toba Inlet"
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