![]() East of Drake Island, Quatsino Narrows is a tidal rapid that connects the eastern end of Quatsino Sound to Holberg Inlet and the smaller Rupert Inlet. Neroutsos Inlet extends southeast from Drake Island and the town of Port Alice lies near the end of the inlet. Koskimo Bay and Koprino Harbour are located farther east in Quatsino Sound, and Drake Island is near the eastern end. Near the Pacific entrance to Quatsino Sound, Forward Inlet extends north and branches into several smaller inlets including Winter Harbour. ![]() ![]() It is the northernmost of five sounds on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the others being Kyuquot Sound, Nootka Sound, Clayoquot Sound, and Barclay Sound. Quatsino Sound extends east from the Pacific Ocean and branches into several smaller inlets creating an intricate complex of bays and islands. This area is the traditional territory of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw people, which means ‘Kwakʼwala speaking peoples’ that includes the Haisla, Wuikinuxv, and Heiltsuk. ![]() The mine extracted a copper-molybdenum-gold deposit from quartz– feldspar rocks associated with the Island Plutonic Suite which is a series of igneous intrusions in a geologic formation called the Bonanza Volcanics that overlie the Wrangellia terrane. Rupert Inlet was historically known as Rupert Arm, named after Fort Rupert, the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post established on Beaver Harbour near Port Hardy. Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia. ![]()
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