Knight Inlet

Knight Inlet (50˚47'00" 125˚38'00" Between Bute Inlet and Kingcome Inlet, NW of Campbell R). This major fjord, one of the longest in BC at 113 km, burrows into the heart of the Coast Mtns and is surrounded at its head by high snowfields and glaciers. It was surveyed in 1792, during Capt George Vancouver’s PNW expedition, by Lt William Broughton, cdr of HMS Chatham. He named it after John Knight (c 1748–1831), son of a rear adm, who joined the RN at a very tender age to sail with his...

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