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Island Copper Mine, Rupert Inlet

Island Copper was an open pit mine located at the northern end of Vancouver Island on Rupert Inlet at the head of Quatsino Sound, about 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Coal Harbour and 8.5 miles (14 km) south of Port Hardy, British Columbia.

Esquimalt Lagoon, Royal Roads

Esquimalt Lagoon is formed by the Coburg Peninsula, a sand and gravel barrier spit 1.2 miles (1.9 km) long at Royal Roads on Vancouver Island, about 4.4 miles (7.3 km) west of Victoria in the city of Colwood, British Columbia.

Swartz Bay, North Saanich

Swartz Bay is at the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island and is the location of a BC Ferries terminal that provides the marine link connecting Highway 17 with the mainland, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tsawwassen and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Sidney, British Columbia.

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Willows Beach, Oak Bay

Willows Beach, Oak Bay

Willows Beach is a beachfront neighborhood between Bowker Creek and Cattle Point at the head of Oak Bay in Victoria, British Columbia.

Malachan, Nitinat Lake

Malachan, Nitinat Lake

Malachan is a Ditidaht community of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation located at the head of Nitinat Lake on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Bamfield, and 93 miles (150 km) northwest by road from Victoria, British Columbia.

Seymour River, Burrard Inlet

Seymour River, Burrard Inlet

The Seymour River flows from a large reservoir into Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Humpback Bay, Porcher Island

Humpback Bay, Porcher Island

Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Gingolx,  Kincolith River

Gingolx, Kincolith River

Gingolx is one of four Nisga’a villages that make up the Nisga’a First Nation and is situated at the confluence of the Kincolith River and the Nass River on the northern shore of Nass Bay, about 70 miles (113 km) east-southeast of Ketchikan and 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

SS Pezuta, Tlell River

SS Pezuta, Tlell River

The Tlell River flows generally north-northeast for 28 miles (45 km) to Hecate Strait, near the wreck of the steamship SS Pezuta, about 29 miles (47 km) south-southeast of Masset and 4.5 miles (7 km) north of Tlell, British Columbia.

Beaver Point, Salt Spring Island

Beaver Point, Salt Spring Island

Beaver Point is a prominent headland in Ruckle Provincial Park on the southeastern shore of Salt Spring Island in the Southern Gulf Islands and at the northwestern end of Swanson Channel, about 8 miles (13 km) north-northeast of Sidney and 4 miles (6 km) east of Fulford Harbour, British Columbia.

Brockton Point, Stanley Park

Brockton Point, Stanley Park

Brockton Point is a prominent peninsula in Stanley Park, located on the southern coast of Burrard Inlet, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Tsawwassen and 2.6 miles (4 km) southeast of West Vancouver, British Columbia.

Oona River, Porcher Island

Oona River, Porcher Island

Oona River is a community situated at the mouth of the namesake river that drains a watershed on the southeastern shore of Porcher Island, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Prince Rupert and 13 miles (21 km) north-northeast of Kitkatla, British Columbia.

Flower Island, Ten Mile Point

Flower Island, Ten Mile Point

Flower Island is a small, uninhabited islet located about 250 feet (80 m) offshore from the southern end of Ten Mile Point, roughly 15 miles (24 km) south-southeast of Sidney and 4 miles (6 km) east-northeast of Victoria, British Columbia.

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This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset. 

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