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Peter Island is a 720 hectares (1,800 acres) [1] private island located in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west (195 degrees true) from Road Town , Tortola . The island was named after Pieter Adriensen (nicknamed "The Commander") who was the brother of Abraham Adriensen , Patron of Tortola under the Dutch ...
The "Other Islands" are mainly the islands south of Tortola (separated from it by the Sir Francis Drake Channel and southwest of Virgin Gorda and detached Ginger Island, mainly Norman Island, Peter Island, Cooper Island and Salt Island. These islands are also known under the informal name Little Sisters or Southern Islands.
Broughton Archipelago. Broughton Island; North Broughton Island; Eden Island; Bonwick Island; Baker Island; Cormorant Island (loc. of Alert Bay); Hardwicke Island; Harbledown Island, site of New Vancouver
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Randy Stoltmann and a friend first laid eyes on the towering Sitka Spruce of the Carmanah Valley in the early 1980s. In 1985 Stoltmann authored an article proposing protection for the Carmanah giant spruce grove as a National Park Centennial gift to Canada while the Western Canada Wilderness Committee issued a report calling for the protection of a 500-acre sitka spruce grove park as a ...
When Spanish explorers arrived on the west coast of Canada, they named many of the features of what is now the Strait of Georgia.Bowen Island was called Isla de Apodaca (after the Mexican town of Apodaca, in northeast Nuevo León state, which was itself named after a benevolent bishop, Salvador de Apodaca y Loreto) by the Spanish Captain José María Narváez in July, 1791. [10]
British Columbia History Along the Highways & Waterways: A Traveler's Guide to the Fascinating Facts, Intriguing Incidents and Lively Legends of Vancouver Island & the British Columbia Coast. Red Deer, Alberta: Red Deer College Press. pp. 100– 101. ISBN 0-88995-173-X. Twenty-Five Years of Newcastle Island. Nanaimo Visitor Information Centre.
Broughton Archipelago is a group of islands located at the eastern end of Queen Charlotte Strait in Mount Waddington Regional District, British Columbia. The archipelago is the traditional territory of the Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw , Namgis , Ma'amtagila and Tlowitsis nations of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples.