Yuculta Rapids

Yuculta Rapids (50˚23'00" 125˚09'00" Between Sonora I and Stuart I, N of Campbell R). These well-known hazards to navigation have currents that can run up to 10 knots (18.5 km/h). Sailing Directions warns of “strong tidal streams with overfalls and at times violent eddies and whirlpools,” and a number of marine disasters have occurred in this vicinity. The name, which is usually pronounced YUK-le-taw, refers to the Lekwiltok people, a branch of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation, who moved...

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