Portland Canal
Portland Canal is an arm of Portland Inlet, one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is approximately 114 km long. The Portland Canal forms part of the border between southeastern Alaska and British Columbia.- Type: Channel
- Description: fjord on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and British Columbia
- Also known as: “Brown Canal”, “Pearse Canal”, “Pearse Channel”, “Portland Canal (agianan sa Canada)”, “Portland Inlet”, “Portlands Canal”, and “Portlands Channel”
Portland Canal
- Categories: channel and body of water
- Location: Ketchikan Gateway, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
55.625° or 55° 37′ 30″ north
Longitude
-130.12083° or 130° 7′ 15″ west
Open location code
947FJVFH+XM
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Portland Canal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قناة بورتلاند”
- Cebuano: “Portland Canal”
- Chinese: “波特蘭運河”
- Dutch: “Portland Canal”
- French: “canal Portland”
- French: “Canal Portland”
- German: “Portland Canal”
- Hebrew: “תעלת פורטלנד”
- Italian: “Canale Portland”
- Polish: “Portland Canal”
- Swedish: “Portland Canal”
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