Hisnit Inlet

Hisnit Inlet (49˚44'00" 126˚30'00" W side of Tlupana Inlet, E of Nootka I, W side of Vancouver I), Hisnit Islands (50˚10'00" 127˚28'00" N side of Ououkinsh Inlet, NE of Checleset Bay, NW side of Vancouver I). The inlet is named after an abandoned village site, now a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation reserve, that was located at its head and mentioned in 18th-century exploration records. According to BC historians Philip and Helen Akrigg, the word means “place of sockeye salmon.” The Nootka...

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