Kingcome Inlet

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Kingcome Inlet is a remote public port facility owned and operated by Transport Canada (Pacific Region, federal Ports Program) on the central coast of British Columbia. It serves an isolated community accessible primarily by water and air, in the territory of the Dzawada'enuxw (Tsawataineuk) First Nation, where marine transportation is the primary mode of access via private boat, water taxi, scheduled freight service, and floatplane. The facility consists of a small public wharf/dock on Kingcome Inlet, a roughly 35 km long coastal fjord that runs from the mouth of the Kingcome River out through Sutlej Channel and around Broughton Island to Queen Charlotte Strait in the Broughton Archipelago area. It is a non-commercial community-access wharf rather than a cargo-handling terminal; Transport Canada has classified such Pacific remote wharves as facilities whose ongoing role serving basic community needs has been under evaluation.