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Individual hydrographic offices produce national chart series and international chart series. Coordinated by the International Hydrographic Organization , the international chart series is a worldwide system of charts ("INT" chart series), which is being developed with the goal of unifying as many chart systems as possible.
First Narrows forms the western mouth of Vancouver's inner harbour. Prior to the dredging shallow sandbanks extended far from the north shore. First Narrows is the official name for the entrance to Burrard Inlet , the mouth of Vancouver, British Columbia 's inner harbour.
Burrard Inlet (Halkomelem: səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coastal slopes of the North Shore Mountains, which span West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver to the ...
The sound was named Primera Angostura (Spanish for First Narrows) as it was the first narrows of the strait that ships met when sailing through the strait from east to west. The ferry company Transbordadora Austral Broom S.A. operates across the narrows.
Sechelt Inlet, with Skookumchuck Narrows highlighted and Sechelt Rapids circled. Skookumchuck Narrows [1] is a strait forming the entrance of Sechelt Inlet on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast in Canada. Before broadening into Sechelt Inlet, all of its tidal flow together with that of Salmon Inlet and Narrows Inlet must pass through Sechelt ...
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First Narrows may refer to: First Narrows (Strait of Magellan) - in Spanish "Primera Angostura", the first narrows in the Strait of Magellan, when proceeding east to west. First Narrows (Vancouver) , Vancouver's first narrows protects the main harbour, east of the city the second narrows opens into several long bays - see DGS Mastodon
The Board was responsible for a recommendation that the Federal government should dredge the First Narrows of Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, allowing larger ocean-going vessels to moor in Vancouver's inner harbour. The Harbour Board operated harbour support vessels, like steam-powered fireboat Orion. [2]