Tallheo Hot Springs is a
hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...
located on the west shore of
South Bentinck Arm South Bentinck Arm is a long side-inlet of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. At the north end of the arm it meets the North Bentinck Arm and then the Dean Channel before flowing into the Burke Channel.
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, 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
Central Coast of British Columbia
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,
Canada
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, located southwest of the community of
Bella Coola. The hot springs, which are known as '' Ix7piixm'' in the
Nuxalk language
Nuxalk , also known as Bella Coola , is a Salishan language
The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washingt ...
, are located opposite
Bensins Island Bensins Island is the only island in South Bentinck Arm, an inlet (fjord) in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located across the inlet from Tallheo Hot Springs. Slightly north of the island on the shore of the inlet was ...
, the only island in South Bentinck Arm.
BC Names "Bensins Island"
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See also
*Taleomey River The Taleomey River is a river in the northernmost Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing west to South Bentinck Arm where its waters enter the sea a few miles north of the head of tha ...
*List of hot springs
There are hot springs on all continents and in many countries around the world. Countries that are renowned for their hot springs include Turkey, Honduras, Canada, Chile, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, India, Romania, Fiji ...
References
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Central Coast of British Columbia
Hot springs of British Columbia
Nuxalk