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 wa ...

in the North Island region of

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, 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 oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

as are other inlets on the west coast of Vancouver Island. At the head of the inlet are the

Zeballos River The Zeballos River is a river located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The river is up island and flows south into the north end of Zeballos Inlet, near the town of Zeballos. The river was named in relation to Zeballos Inlet, which was n ...

and the village municipality of Zeballos, which was founded as a gold-mining town.

Name origin

The inlet was named by

Alessandro Malaspina Alejandro Malaspina (November 5, 1754 – April 9, 1810) was a Tuscan explorer who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788, then, from 1789 t ...

, after a lieutenant from his crew,

Ciriaco Ceballos Ciriaco Ceballos Neto or Ciriaco Cevallos y Bustillo ( Quijano, Cantabria, 1763 - México, 1816) was a Spanish sailor, explorer and cartographer. The Zeballos River and Zeballos, British Columbia Zeballos (pop. 107) is a village located on the no ...

, 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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Name origin

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