Skidegate Channel

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| name = Skidegate Channel

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| image = Pukers Bay. Or so the nickname goes. - panoramio.jpg

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| caption = View up Dawson Inlet from Skidegate Channel

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| location = Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada

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| coordinates = {{coord|53|9|N|132|20|W|type:waterbody|display=it}}

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| length = {{convert|33|km|mi}}

| width = {{convert|4.3|km|mi}}

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Skidegate Channel{{Cite web|title=Skidegate Channel|url=https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/31130.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=apps.gov.bc.ca}} is a strait located in the Haida Gwaii archipelago of British Columbia, Canada. It divides the archipelago's two main islands, Graham Island to the north and Moresby Island to the south.

Geography

Skidegate Channel is a located between Graham Island to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Skidegate Inlet to the northeast, and Moresby Island to the south. The channel has a length of {{convert|33|km|mi}}, a maximum width of {{convert|4.3|km|mi}}, and a minimum width of no more than {{convert|65|m|ft}} at East Narrows.{{Cite web|title=East Narrows|url=https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/38145.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=apps.gov.bc.ca}} Dawson Inlet branches off to the north from Skidegate Channel near its western terminus at the Pacific Ocean.{{Cite web|title=Dawson Inlet|url=https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/29778.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=apps.gov.bc.ca}} Trounce Inlet branches off to the north from Skidegate Channel near its midpoint.{{Cite web|title=Trounce Inlet|url=https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/31430.html|access-date=2020-10-07|website=apps.gov.bc.ca}}

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