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Grenville Channel
Grenville Channel is a strait on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, between Pitt Island and the mainland to the south of Prince Rupert. It is part of the Inside Passage shipping route, about long and is wide at its narrowest point. The Grenville Channel Fault that forms the channel dates back to the Cretaceous Era. Both sides are mountainous and densely wooded, and a linear magnetic anomaly In geophysics, a magnetic anomaly is a local variation in the Earth's magnetic field resulting from variations in the chemistry or magnetism of the rocks. Mapping of variation over an area is valuable in detecting structures obscured by overlying ... runs parallel to the channel south of 51"30'N. See also * Baker Inlet * Pa-aat River * Kumealon Inlet * Kxngeal Inlet * Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park * Lowe Inlet Marine Provincial Park * Union Passage Marine Provincial Park References External links North Coast of British Columbia Channels of British Columbia< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Coast Regional District
The North Coast Regional District (until 2016 known as the Skeena–Queen Charlotte Regional District) is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia. It is located on British Columbia's west coast and includes Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), the largest of which are Graham Island and Moresby Island. Its administrative offices are in the City of Prince Rupert. Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the North Coast Regional District, previously the Skeena–Queen Charlotte Regional District, had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Electoral areas *Area A - Skeena North: 29 **Dodge Cove (unincorporated community): 29 (down from 52 in 2011) **Crippen Cove ** Metlakatla **Lax Kw'alaams *Area C - Skeena South: 147 **Porcher Island ***Oona River (unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnetic Anomaly
In geophysics, a magnetic anomaly is a local variation in the Earth's magnetic field resulting from variations in the chemistry or magnetism of the rocks. Mapping of variation over an area is valuable in detecting structures obscured by overlying material. The magnetic variation (geomagnetic reversals) in successive bands of ocean floor parallel with mid-ocean ridges was important evidence for seafloor spreading, a concept central to the theory of plate tectonics. Measurement Magnetic anomalies are generally a small fraction of the magnetic field. The total field ranges from 25,000 to 65,000 nanoteslas (nT). To measure anomalies, magnetometers need a sensitivity of 10 nT or less. There are three main types of magnetometer used to measure magnetic anomalies: # The fluxgate magnetometer was developed during World War II to detect submarines. It measures the component along a particular axis of the sensor, so it needs to be oriented. On land, it is often oriented vertically, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Passage Marine Provincial Park
Union Passage Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park within the asserted traditional territory of the Tsimshian First Nations. The marine protected area is located at the southwest end of Grenville Channel straddling Pitt and Farrant Islands, in British Columbia, Canada. The park conserves of North Coast Fjords Marine Ecosection, and protects sensitive aquatic habitats of importance for harbour porpoises, orca, humpback whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, Dall's porpoises, and Harbour seals The harbor (or harbour) seal (''Phoca vitulina''), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared s ... References Provincial parks of British Columbia North Coast Regional District Marine parks of Canada {{BritishColumbia-park-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowe Inlet Marine Provincial Park
Lowe Inlet Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on the Inside Passage of the North Coast, 118 km south of Prince Rupert and 75 km north of Butedale Butedale is a ghost town on Princess Royal Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1918 as a fishing, mining and logging camp. Initially the salmon cannery was established by Western Packers which was purchased and operated by the .... Established on 14 June 1994, the park now contains approximately ( of upland and of foreshore). Images File:Travels in Alaska 018.jpg, Lowe Inlet References Provincial parks of British Columbia North Coast Regional District North Coast of British Columbia Year of establishment missing Marine parks of Canada {{British Columbia parks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park
Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Grenville Channel, southeast of Prince Rupert, in the Range 4 Coast Land District. The park was established on 14 June 1993, surrounds the inlet and Freda Lake, and covers , including of upland and of foreshore. Images File:Flock of Barrow's goldeneyes foraging in Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park.jpg, Flock of Barrow's goldeneyes foraging File:Curious Harbour Seals in Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park.webp, Curious Harbour Seals File:Brodie Lake falls into Klewnuggit Inlet.webp, Brodie Lake falls into the inlet File:Islets in the East Finger of Klewnuggit Inlet.png, Islets in the East Finger A finger is a limb of the body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of most of the Tetrapods, so also with humans and other primates. Most land vertebrates have five fingers ( Pentadactyly). Chambers ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kxngeal Inlet
Kxngeal Inlet is an inlet in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, extending east from Grenville Channel opposite Pitt Island, to the north of Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park. The inlet is considered part of the traditional territories of the Kitsumkalum, a Galts'ap of the Tsimshian Nation. See also *Grenville Channel *Inside Passage *Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park Klewnuggit Inlet Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Grenville Channel, southeast of Prince Rupert, in the Range 4 Coast Land District. The park was established on 14 June 1993, su ...] References North Coast of British Columbia Inlets of British Columbia {{BritishColumbiaNorthCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumealon Inlet
Kumealon Inlet is an inlet on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the eastern side of the north end of Grenville Channel facing Pitt Island. Kumealon Inlet sits between the Ecstall Pluton and the Grenville Channel shear zone, and is bounded by rocks dating to the Albian (102.6±3.7 Ma). Features Connected features to the inlet are: *Kumealon Island, located on the north side of the entrance to the inlet at *Kumealon Lagoon, a small arm on the north side of the inlet at , connected to it via: *Kumealon Narrows, a short narrows at *Kumealon Creek, a short creek which feeds northwest into Kumealon Lagoon, entering it at Images File:Looking Westward along Kumealon Inlet.webp, Looking westward from the head of Kumealon Inlet towards the entrance File:Kumealon Island, on the north side of the entrance of the inlet.png, Kumealon Island File:Looking Westward along Kumealon Inlet in the Morning.webp, Looking westward along Kumealon Inlet in the morning See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pa-aat River
The Pa-aat River, formerly known as the Salmon River and also as the Paaat River, is a small river on Pitt Island in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It flows north to enter Grenville Channel opposite Baker Inlet via Salmon Inlet, at the mouth of which is Pa-aat Indian Reserve No. 6, which is governed by the Gitxaala Nation of the Tsimshian. See also * Salmon River (other) * |
Baker Inlet
Baker Inlet is an inlet in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, extending east from Grenville Channel opposite Pitt Island, to the south of Kumealon Inlet. See also *Grenville Channel *Inside Passage *Kumealon Inlet Kumealon Inlet is an inlet on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the eastern side of the north end of Grenville Channel facing Pitt Island. Kumealon Inlet sits between the Ecstall Pluton and the Grenville Channel shear zone, and is ... References North Coast of British Columbia Inlets of British Columbia {{BritishColumbiaNorthCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from the Latin ''creta'', "chalk", which is abundant in the latter half of the period. It is usually abbreviated K, for its German translation ''Kreide''. The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now- extinct marine reptiles, ammonites, and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land. The world was ice free, and forests extended to the poles. During this time, new groups of mammals and birds appeared. During the Early Cretaceous, flowering plants appeared and began to rapidly diversify, becoming the dominant group of plants across the Earth b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Passage
The Inside Passage (french: Passage Intérieur) is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American Fjordland. The route extends from southeastern Alaska in the United States, through western British Columbia in Canada, to northwestern Washington state in the United States. Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries, and Washington State Ferries systems. Coast Guard vessels of both Canada and the United States patrol and transit in the Passage. The term "Inside Passage" is also often used to refer to the ocean and islands around the passage itself. Route It is generally accepted that the southernmost point of the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
