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Pender Island (Saanich: st̕ey̕əs) [2] is the collective name for two Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea, British Columbia, Canada. The Pender Islands, consisting of North Pender Island and South Pender Island, have a combined area of approximately 34 km 2 (13 sq mi). The Islands are home to about 2,250 permanent residents, as ...
1948 [1] No. of lines. 8. Hubs. Bay Shore, New York. Website. Fire Island Ferries. Fire Island Ferries is a passenger and freight ferry service, serving the Western communities of Fire Island, New York. [2]
The Strait of Georgia (French: Détroit de Géorgie) or the Georgia Strait[3] is an arm of the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, and the extreme northwestern mainland coast of Washington, United States. It is approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) long and varies in width ...
Ocean Isle Beach (or simply Ocean Isle) is a small seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It was incorporated as a town in 1959 [4] and is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 867 at the 2020 census. Located at the southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, along the ...
Pender Harbour (ḵalpilin in she shashishalhem) is a harbour on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. [1] The name Pender Harbour also refers collectively to the surrounding unincorporated communities of Madeira Park , [ 2 ] Kleindale, [ 3 ] Irvines Landing , [ 4 ] and Garden Bay, [ 5 ] within the Sunshine ...
MV Skeena Queen is a ferry built in 1997 and named after the Skeena River.She was intended to be part of a class of spartan, utilitarian ferries, in the "Century ferry class", designed by the naval architects McLaren and Sons In 1994 the 10-year plan of BC Ferries called for construction of three Century-class ferries, to service the busier Gulf Island routes in British Columbia operated by BC ...
List of current routes. The current inland ferries in BC are as follows: [1] Crosses Adams Lake between Chase and Sorrento, off BC Highway 1. Crosses the juncture of Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake southwest of Nakusp, off BC Highway 6. Crosses the Parsons Channel on the Fraser River between Port Kells and Barnston Island.
MV Quinitsa is an automobile ferry operated by BC Ferries.It was built in 1977 by Vancouver Shipyards in Vancouver, British Columbia.The ferry was originally part of the Ministry of Transportation and Highways' (MoT) saltwater ferry fleet until 1985, when the MoT's saltwater ferries—including Quinitsa—were transferred to BC Ferries.