Qlawdzeet Anchorage

Qlawdzeet Anchorage (54˚13'00" 130˚46'00" N end of Stephens I, Brown Passage, W of Prince Rupert). According to Odille Morison, the N coast linguist (see Morison Passage) who assisted anthropologist Franz Boas, Qlawdzeet is the original Tsimshian name for this feature and can be translated as “clam bay.” More literally, the word means “place of the hissing noise”; zeet is onomatopoeic and represents the sound made when a great number of clams eject water through their siphons. This is...

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