| Call Inlet | |
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  Call Inlet Location in British Columbia | |
| Location | British Columbia,Canada |
| Coordinates | 50°36′29″N126°04′38″W / 50.60806°N 126.07722°W /50.60806; -126.07722 (Call Inlet) |
| Type | Fjord |
Call Inlet is aninlet on theCentral Coast region ofBritish Columbia,Canada, located south of the lower reaches ofKnight Inlet to the east ofEast Cracroft Island.Pawala Indian Reserve No. 5 is at the head of the inlet.[1]Chatham Channel connects the outlet of the inlet toKnight Inlet and separates East Cracroft Island from the mainland peninsula on the north side of the inlet.Havannah Channel leads southwest out of the inlet, south and east around East Cracroft and pastHull Island, toJohnstone Strait.[2]
Also named asCall Creek byCaptain Pender in his 1865 surveys of the region, when "creek" was a term used for coastal inlets, the inlet was originally named by CommanderWilliam Broughton ofHMS Chatham in 1792 for SirJohn Call, 1782–1801, who had distinguished himself with theEast India Company as a military engineer.[3][4]: 36
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