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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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At peak flows, standing waves, whitecaps, and whirlpools form at the rapids even in calm weather. The narrows are also the site of Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park. Each day, tides force large amounts of seawater through the narrows—760,000,000 m 3 (200 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water on a 3 m (9.8 ft) tide. The difference in water levels on ...
The Lions Gate Bridge, opened in 1938 and officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, [1] is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of Burrard Inlet and connects the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, to the North Shore municipalities of the District of North Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, and West Vancouver.
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