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Portland Inlet

inlet, Canada
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Portland Inlet, arm of the Pacific Ocean, indenting western British Columbia, Canada; it is an extension of Dixon Entrance and Chatham Sound, north of Prince Rupert. Named in 1793 by the English navigator George Vancouver in honour of the ducal house of Portland, the inlet is 25 miles (40 km) long and up to 8 miles (13 km) wide. Portland Inlet contains Pearse, Wales, and Somerville islands, receives the 236-mile- (380-kilometre-) long Nass River, and...

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