Kitkiata Inlet is an

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, 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 marine geogra ...

on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, off the west side of

Douglas Channel 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 . The actual length o ...

. 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 The Quaal River is a river in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, flowing south into Kitkiata Inlet in the British Columbia Coast, North Coast region. Indian reserves Quaal Indian Reserve No. 3 of the Kitkaata Nat ...

, 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)"
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article, are under the governance of the

Hartley Bay Indian Band The Hartley Bay Indian Band is also known as the Gitga'at First Nation or 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 ra ...

of the

Gitga'at The Gitga'ata (sometimes also spelled Gitga'at or Gitk'a'ata) are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and inhabit the village of Hartley Bay, British Columbia, the name of which in the Tsimshian language is Txa� ...

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