Tribune Channel

Tribune Channel is a channel or strait on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, separating the north and east sides of Gilford Island from the mainland.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24872.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Tribune Channel"] The channel bends around the island's east side, with the mouth of Thompson Sound at the elbow of the bend, opening eastwards to the mouth of the Kakweiken River.

At its southern end, it opens onto lower Knight Inlet. Viscount Island lies in the left side of the channel within that opening, separated from the adjacent mainland by Sergeaunt Channel at {{coord|50|41|04|N|126|11|39|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Sergeaunt Channel}},[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/23733.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Sergeaunt Channel"] at the northeast end of which, on Tribune Channel, is Pumish Point at {{coord|50|42|59|N|126|11|20|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Pumish Point}}[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/27236.html BC names/GeoBC entry "Pumish Point"] At the south end of Sergeaunt Channel, on Knight Inlet, is Steep Head at {{coord|50|40|11|N|126|11|02|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Steep Head}}.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24479.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Steep Head"]

On the west side of Viscount Island is Nickoll Passage at {{coord|50|40|44|N|126|14|29|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=Nickoll Passage}}.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24120.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Nickoll Passage"]

A beach on the south side of the channel at {{coord|50|43|40|N|126|09|00|W|display=inline|source:BCNames|name=tse'lxmedzes}}, south of the opening of Thompson Sound and opposite the southwest coast of Gilford Island and Kumlah Island, is called tse'lxmedzes in Kwak'wala, meaning "crabapple trees on beach".[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/54828.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "tse'lxmedzes (beach)"]

Other locations named for {{HMS|Tribune|1853|6}} are:

• Tribune Bay Provincial Park and bay of the same name, on the east coast of Hornby Island.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/22928.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Tribune Bay Park (provincial park)"][http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/22929.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Tribune Bay (bay)"]
• Tribune Point, on the south side of Gilford Island.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24871.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Tribune Point"]
• Tribune Rock, in the Queen Charlotte Strait region to the north of Hurst Island.[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/24874.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Tribune Rock"]