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Encyclopedia: Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is 460 km (285 miles) long and up to 80 km (50 miles) wide. The largest island on the western side of the Americas at 32,134 square kilometres (12,407 square miles), it is the world's 42nd largest island, Canada's 11th largest island and Canada's second highest populated island. The island is named in honour of George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific northwest coast between 1791 and 1794.

Translations

How to say "Vancouver Island" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	溫哥華島
	(Japanese)	バンクーバー島
	(German)	Vancouver Island
	(Spanish)	Isla de Vancouver
	(French)	Île de Vancouver
	(Italian)	Isola di Vancouver

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Parksville

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Nootka Island

Nootka Island is an island near Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It contains 534 sq. km (206 square miles) of area. It is separated from Vancouver Island by the Nootka Sound. Nootka Island received its name after the Nootka people who live mostly on Vancouver Island...

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Maidenhair Moss

Maidenhair moss is a type of moss, (Fissidens adianthoides). The Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island used Maidenhair Moss to bandage wounds...

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Sidney, British Columbia

Sidney is a town located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It has a population of approximately 11,000...

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Flores Island

There is more than one entry in wikipedia for 'Flores Island': Flores Island, Portugal is in the Portuguese Azores archipelago. Flores Island, British Columbia lies of the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada...

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Port McNeill, British Columbia

Port McNeill is a small community on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island with a population of 2821 (2001). It is home to Willie Mitchell of the Minnesota Wild and the world's largest burl...

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Tofino Air

Tofino Air is a small Canadian airline offering service out of Gabriola Island, Sechelt, and Tofino. It provides some scheduled flights, as well as chartered and scenic flights around Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland Coast...

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HVDC Vancouver-Island

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Nootka Sound

The Nootka Sound is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean and a natural harbor on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada separating Vancouver Island and Nootka Island. The mouth of... mostly on Vancouver Island...

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Coombs, British Columbia

Coombs is a small community on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, situated on provincial highway 4A approximately ten kilometres west of Parksville. Coombs is home to just over a thousand people. Communities on Vancouver Island Bamfield | Campbell River | Chemainus | Comox | Coombs...

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