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This is a list of islands of British Columbia. South Coast. Vancouver Island Vancouver Island ... Canada This page was last edited on 23 January 2025, at 05:48 ...
Passage Island (British Columbia) Pearse Canal Island; Pearse Island; Philip Island (British Columbia) Pine Island (Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia) Pitt Island (Canada) Pooley Island; Porcher Island; Prescott Island (British Columbia) Price Island; Princess Royal Island
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.The island is 456 km (283 mi) in length, 100 km (62 mi) in width at its widest point, [4] and 32,100 km 2 (12,400 sq mi) in total area, while 31,285 km 2 (12,079 sq mi) are of land.
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, bordered by the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 944,735 km 2 (364,764 sq mi) it is Canada's third-largest province . The province is almost four times the size of the United Kingdom and larger than every United States state except Alaska .
11 British Columbia. 12 Additional notes. ... This is an incomplete list of islands of Canada. Arctic islands. Map of Canadian islands in the Arctic Ocean.
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [24] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.