Hole in the Wall

Hole in the Wall (50˚19'00" 125˚10'00" Between Sonora I and Maurelle I, N end of Str of Georgia). The name of this channel may not be derived, as one might expect, from the appearance of its narrow, steep-walled, western entrance, where currents can reach 12 knots (22 km/h) on the flood. According to the BC Indian Language Project, the original “hole in the wall” is a small, round indentation, about 1 m wide, in a cliff on Sonora I, submerged only at extreme high tide and known to the...

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