Loughborough Inlet is one of the lesser principal

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of the British Columbia Coast. It penetrates the Coast Mountains on the north side of the

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archipelago, running about from its head at the mouth of the Stafford River to Chancellor Channel and

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, which are on the north side of

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. A further west along Chancellor Channel is

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. Loughborough Inlet averages about wide. Its mouth marks the east end of Chancellor Channel and the west end of Cordero Channel. The mouth of Loughborough Inlet is about midway between the mouths of

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, to the east, and

Knight Inlet Knight Inlet (Kwakʼwala: ''Tsawatti'') 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 49t ...

, to the west. Because of the arrangement of the mountain ranges separating the inlets, the upper end of Loughborough Inlet is only about from the nearest waters of Knight Inlet, but much farther from Bute Inlet.

History

James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's lieutenants during his 1791–95 expedition, first charted the inlet in 1792. Loughborough Inlet was the site of a large cannery town at

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, which remains on the map as a locality.

References

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History

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