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The Fraser River is known for the fishing of white sturgeon, all five species of Pacific salmon (chinook, coho, chum, pink, sockeye), as well as steelhead trout. The Fraser River is also the largest producer of salmon in Canada. [25] A typical white sturgeon catch can average about 500 pounds (230 kg). [26]
Overlander Falls is a waterfall on the Fraser River in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.It is popular for kayakers.The falls are reached by a short walking trail which starts on the Yellowhead Highway 2 km (1.2 mi) east of the Mount Robson visitor centre.
Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide. It is also the name of the rural locality at the same location.
The Fraser River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 32.5 miles (52.3 km) long, [2] in north central Colorado in the United States. It drains a large portion of the Middle Park basin in Grand County in the Rocky Mountains west of Boulder and southwest of Rocky Mountain National Park .
The Fall Equinox is also a prime viewing time for the Northern Lights, also known as the aurora borealis. The beautiful, celestial lights that dance across the sky in places close to the Arctic ...
The Fraser Valley is a geographical region in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and northwestern Washington State.It starts just west of Hope in a narrow valley encompassing the Fraser River and ends at the Pacific Ocean stretching from the North Shore Mountains, opposite the city of Vancouver BC, to just south of Bellingham, Washington.
Explorer of the Fraser River and North West Company employee Simon Fraser named the river, after passing its mouth on the Fraser in 1808. [13] He named the river after his colleague, David Thompson , who had mapped much of western Canada and was at the time exploring the Columbia River basin to the east.
In 2024, the autumnal equinox falls on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 8:43 a.m. EDT, the earliest start to astronomical fall since 1796, when it occurred on Sept. 22 at 3:27 a.m. LMT.