Nesto Inlet

Nesto Inlet (53˚34'00" 132˚55'00" NE of Hippa I, W side of Graham I, QCI). Nesto (Nasto, Nestow) was the original Haida First Nation name for nearby Hippa I. The word means “impregnable,” and the island was once home to three ancient fortified habitation sites. Nesto Inlet was called Skaloo by the Haida and was widely referred to by 19th-century mariners as Skaloo Inlet before the hydrographic service changed the name to Nesto. In the early 1790s, officers of the US fur-trading vessel...

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