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Actaeon Sound
Actaeon Sound is a sound in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, branching off northeasterly from the north side of Drury Inlet near its head on the mainland of British Columbia to the north of the town of Port McNeill, on the opposite side of Queen Charlotte Strait. On the south side of the sound is the Bond Peninsula at , which is formed by a sidewater, Bond Lagoon at , both presumably named in 1865 by Captain Pender, in association with other Admiralty and HMS ''Actaeon''-related names. On the southeast side of Actress Passage at , which is the waterway connecting Actaeon Sound into Drury Inlet is Charlotte Point at , which was first published on Admiralty maps in 1865 like other locations in the area. Dove Island sits in the middle of the opening, on the Drury Inlet side. Located at , all of it comprises Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12, 8.1 ha., which is under the administration of the Gwawaenuk Tribe band government of the Kwakwaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water typically connected to a larger sea or ocean. There is little consistency in the use of "sound" in English-language place names. It can refer to an inlet, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord, or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (similar to a strait), or it can refer to the lagoon located between a barrier island and the mainland. Overview A sound is often formed by the seas flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation. Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on a coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley. The glacier produces a sound that often has steep, near vertical sides that extend deep underwater. The sea floor is often flat and deeper at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Charlotte Strait
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British Columbia Coast
, settlement_type = Region of British Columbia , image_skyline = , nickname = "The Coast" , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = British Columbia , parts_type = Principal cities , p1 = Vancouver , p2 = Surrey , p3 = Burnaby , p4 = Richmond , p5 = Abbotsford , p6 = Coquitlam , p7 = Delta , p8 = Nanaimo , p9 = Victoria , p10 = Chilliwack , p11 = Maple Ridge , p12 = New Westminster , p13 = Port Coquitlam , p14 = North Vancouver , area_blank1_title = 15 Districts , area_blank1_km2 = 244,778 , area_footnotes = , elevation_max_m = 4019 , elevation_min_m = 0 , elevation_max_footnotes = Mt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drury Inlet
Drury inlet is an inlet in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, extending west from Wells Passage to the northwest of North Broughton Island, northwest of the town of Port Hardy. Branching off to the northeast from the north side of the head of the inlet is Actaeon Sound. Compton Point is the headland on the south side of the entrance, at , opposite North Broughton Island, which is the most northwesterly of the Broughton Archipelago, which is situated to the north of the mouth of Knight Inlet. Compton Point is the tip of a peninsula of the mainland, on the outside of which is located Blunden Harbour, some distance to the west from the south entrance of Wells Passage and is itself at the entry to another series of inlets (Belize Inlet, Seymour Inlet and others). Among the features on the inlet's shoreline, Bughouse Bay at was named for "a deranged settler who once lived in a cabin on the shore of the bay". Bughouse Lake is immedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port McNeill
Port McNeill is a town in the North Island region of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada with a population of 2,356 (2021). Located on Vancouver Island's north-east shore on Queen Charlotte Strait, it was originally a base camp for loggers. Port McNeill became a settlement in 1936. The town was named after Captain William Henry McNeill of the Hudson's Bay Company. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Port McNeill had a population of 2,356 living in 1,019 of its 1,111 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,337. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Religion According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Port McNeill included: *Irreligion (1,545 persons or 65.9%) *Christianity (730 persons or 31.1%) *Buddhism (10 persons or 0.4%) Tourism and location Along with housing the headquarters of the Regional District of Mount Waddington, Port McNeill acts as a central hub for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Actaeon (1831)
HMS ''Actaeon'' was a 26-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Career ''Actaeon'' was designed in 1827 by the School of Naval Architecture, and launched from Portsmouth Dockyard on 31 January 1831. She was first commissioned in November 1830 under Captain Frederick William Grey for service in the Mediterranean. On 5 November 1831 she rescued the crew of ''Ariel'', which was wrecked near Brindisi, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. ''Ariel'' was on a voyage from Trieste to Greenock, Renfrewshire. After serving in the Mediterranean ''Actaeon'' served off South America from November 1834 under Captain Lord Edward Russell. She was assigned to the British Pacific Squadron, arriving in Valparaíso in July 1836. She was involved in the charting of the Acteon Group: a group of islands that Russell named after this vessel. By 1838 she was back in Portsmouth under the command of Robert Russell, who sailed her back to South America in August that year. On 23 July 1840, she ran agroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Island (British Columbia)
Dove Island may refer to: *Dove Island (Canada), Nunavut Canada *Dove Island (British Columbia), Canada ** Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12, an Indian reserve comprising that island *Dove Island (Guangzhou), an English naming for Guanzhou Island in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Naming by UK Government. *Dove Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) *Dove Island, Minnesota, an island in Rainy Lake Rainy Lake ( French: '; Ojibwe: ') is a freshwater lake with a surface area of that straddles the border between the United States and Canada. The Rainy River issues from the west side of the lake and is harnessed to make hydroelectricity for ..., home to the community of Island View * Dove Island (Western Australia) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dove Island Indian Reserve No
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily feed on seeds, fruits, and plants. The family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. The family contains 344 species divided into 50 genera. Thirteen of the species are extinct. In English, the smaller species tend to be called "doves" and the larger ones "pigeons". However, the distinction is not consistent, and does not exist in most other languages. Historically, the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation between the terms. The bird most commonly referred to as just "pigeon" is the domestic pigeon, which is common in many cities as the feral pigeon. Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests, often using sticks and other debris, which may be placed on b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwawaenuk Tribe
The Gwawaenuk Tribe, or Gwawaʼenux̱w is a First Nations band government of the Kwakwaka'wakw people located in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. The Gwawaenuk Tribe has no year-round road access to a service centre and being about 160 km to 240 km from the nearest service centre. Language As of 2012, about half the tribe speaks the Kwak'wala language. The tribe's dialect is called "Gwawaenuk." Demographics First nation number 627 with 39 members. It is one of about 175 Aboriginal Communities in Canada that is off-the-grid. List of Reserves Indian reserves under the administration of the band are: * Dove Island Indian Reserve No. 12, all of Dove Island at the entrance to Actress Pass, where Actaeon Sound opens into Drury Inlet, 8.10 ha. * Gleyka Indian Reserve No. 6, on the east shore of Actaeon Sound, 3.20 ha. * Hopetown Indian Reserve No. 10A, on the south shore of Watson Island in Grappler Sound, 2.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dove (1855)
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Dove'' after the bird family ''Columbidae'': * was an 8-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and wrecked in 1674. * was a 4-gun ketch built at Deptford in 1672 and sold in 1683. * was a 4-gun schooner purchased in May 1805 and captured by the French in August the same year. * was the mercantile ''Ariadne'', launched at Cowes in 1803, and purchased in 1805 as an advice boat. She was renamed HMS ''Dove'', and then renamed HMS ''Flight'' in 1806 but foundered in September 1806. * was a 6-gun packet brig purchased in 1823 and sold in 1829. * , a 12-gun , was ordered as HMS ''Dove'' in 1839, renamed ''Kangaroo'' in 1843, and eventually launched in 1852. She was sold in 1897. * was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold at Shanghai in 1873. * was a 20-ton paddle gunboat built in sections at Yarrows in Poplar, London in 1893 and assembled in East Africa. She was transferred to the government of British Central A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bullock (Royal Navy Officer)
James Bullock (25 March 1902 – 9 March 1977) was an English professional footballer, who played as a forward who played for various clubs in the 1920s and 1930s. Playing career Bullock was born in Gorton and after spending his early days playing with Gorton he joined Manchester City in March 1922. He failed to break into City's first team and in February 1924 he moved to Crewe Alexandra in Division Three North. After half a season with Crewe he was signed by Division Two Southampton in August 1924. He remained at Southampton for five years during which he was usually only called upon to play in the first team when either Bill Rawlings or Arthur Dominy were unavailable. In his first three seasons at The Dell he only made fifteen appearances including a spell of ten games in the latter half of the 1925–26 season when first Dominy and then Rawlings were unavailable in which Bullock scored four goals, including a brace against Derby County on 10 February 1926. In the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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