Klaskish Anchorage


Klaskish Anchorage (50˚14'00" 127˚46'00" S side of Klaskish Inlet, SE of McDougal I), Klaskish Basin (50˚15'35" 127˚43'30" Head of Klaskish Inlet), Klaskish Inlet (50˚15'00" 127˚46'00" N side of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I). The name may mean “ocean beach” in Kwakwala, the language of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation. The inlet was mistakenly shown as Port Brooks on an Admiralty chart of 1849, and this error was perpetuated by later historians. The original Port Brooks,...

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