Talk:Hecate Strait

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Depth?

This and other coastal water-body articles, e..g Queen Charlotte Sound, all need their soundigns, especially given the reference to the coastal plain and being shallow etc.Skookum1 (talk) 02:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tsimshian, Haisla and Heiltsuk names also needed

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Haida language:Seegaay)

Out of fairness;NPOV these are not Haida-only waters and names from at least the peoples whose territories flank on it shoudl be included, if they can be found out; Tlingit and Kwakwaka'wakw and Owikeno and Nisga'a also, and there were American and Russian terms for this stretch of water as well (likely also Spanish). Once these are available, an alternate names section could be made, though definitely the Tsimshian name should be present here so as to not give the impression these are solely "territorial waters" of the Haida.....Skookum1 (talk) 23:34, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible that the U.S.A. is to the south of the "A-B Line" with Canada to the North? Sorry, can't help with the names.68.96.83.107 (talk) 02:28, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

yes that's a different issue, see Dixon Entrance, which also had Haida-only content, and no Tlingit or Tsimshian.......the US, by treaty, isn't south of the A-B Line, but Alaska has mapped out, not sure about selling, drilling leases up to mid-Entrance, saying that the seabed isn't covered by the various treaties with the US and Russia establishing the A-B Line as the boundary.Skookum1 (talk) 06:40, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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the main neutrality issue on this one is the Haida bias and peacockery....no Heiltsuk and Tsmishian and Kwak'wala names originally, but definitely some (still uncited) breast-beating by a Haida fan.......Wales Island was different, it's a border dispute item and there were conflicting USian and Canadian/BC terminologies and statements in it.Skookum1 (talk) 06:36, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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History

Hello friends, I’ve added a citation needed note to the first sentence of the History section. If nothing appears, I’ll remove the sentence - I appreciate that ‘depths’ can be relative but the depth of this Strait cannot really be described as shallow at 100 metres in the main channel. Agreed that the western half has about 10 to 20 metres but this would only be ‘shallow’ for very large commercial vessels. Long Island Sound for example has a maximum depth of about 40 metres and a lot of it is less than 20 metres at chart datum.

Secondly, depth has no influence on the weather! Possibly the original author meant to say that the (relatively) shallow western section would experience different sea conditions from the deep eastern half in the event of, for example, a southerly storm but this is a note of detail that probably isn’t relevant to this article. Rich0908 (talk) 10:06, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]