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A major side-inlet, the Gardner Canal , is 90 km in length, and is accessed from the Kitimat Arm of Douglas Channel via Devastation Sound (20 km), which is on the east side of Hawkesbury Island . South of Hawkesbury is Varney Passage (40 km), which has a sidechannel, Ursula Passage (30 km). Total waterway length of the Fjord dominated by Douglas Channel is therefore, not counting smaller side-inlets, is 320km, longer than Norway 's Sognefjord (203km) and rivalling Greenland 's Scoresby Sund at 350km, though not as long as nearby Dean Channel's total of 335km. Douglas Channel is a busy shipping artery because of the Aluminum smelter at Kitimat , as Bauxite must be shipped in and smelted Aluminum shipped out. Recently-announced (2005) plans will see a major expansion of the port of Kitimat as a container and bulk resources port, augmenting the port capacity of the BC's North Coast currently a monopoly of the city of nearby Prince Rupert . The Gardner Canal is important for being the location of the Kemano generating station of the Nechako Diversion , which was built to supply power for Kitimat . The head of the Gardner Canal, also, is the mouth of the Kitlope River , a major wildlife and wilderness preserve and area of outstanding natural beauty (and harsh weather). The channel is named in honour of Sir James Douglas , the first governor of the Colony Of British Columbia . |
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