Boca del Infierno Bay

Boca del Infierno Bay (49˚37'00" 126˚38'00" SE side of Nootka I, W side of Vancouver I). In a 1933 memo, Henri Parizeau, chief hydrographer on Canada’s Pacific coast, wrote that “whilst the name translated means Bay of Fury or Bay of Hell, and therefore is objectionable, being in a foreign language its objection is not so apparent.” Boca del Infierno, bestowed by 18th-century Spanish explorers based at Nootka Sd, was allowed to stand. It likely refers to the reversing tidal rapids at...

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