Mussel Inlet is in inlet in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a northeast extension of Sheep Passage, and part of the Fiordland Conservancy.
Name origin and history It was first charted in 1793 by James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's officers during his 1791-95 expedition. It was here the men ate mussels that poisoned and killed one of them, John Carter, for whom Carter Bay is named; it is at the junction of Finlayson Channel and the west end of Sheep Passage at .BC Names/GeoBC entry "Carter Bay" Poison Cove at BC Names/GeoBC entry "Poison Cove" being the location where the mussels were harvested.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Poison Cove" A creek northwest into that cove is Poison Cove Creek.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Poison Cove Creek"
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