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Tidal island A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of ...

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located on the west coast of the

Sechelt Peninsula The Sechelt Peninsula is located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, just northwest of Vancouver. It is bounded to the west by Malaspina Strait (separating it from Texada Island), to the north by Agamemnon Channel (separating it from Nelso ...

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Etymology

The designation ''Francis Peninsula'' was officially adopted by

BC Geographical Names The BC Geographical Names (formerly BC Geographical Names Information System or BCGNIS) is a geographic name web service and database for the Canadian province of British Columbia run by the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services Branch of the Integra ...

in 1930. The name was changed to ''Beaver Island'' on 28 July 1945 as identified on British Admiralty Charts. BC Geographical Names reverted the name back to ''Francis Peninsula'' on 4 April 1972 in order to conform with its entrenched local usage.

Geography

Francis Peninsula forms the southern part of

Pender Harbour Pender Harbour is a harbour community on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. The harbour itself is an intricate amalgam of bays and coves that encroach inland for five kilometres and provide over 60 kilometres ...

. During

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tide, the peninsula is divided from the mainland by Bargain Narrows (an arm of Pender Harbour) and Bargain Bay. During low tide, the island rejoins the mainland to become a peninsula. A two-lane road connects the island to the mainland via a short bridge. The island features two protected areas:

Francis Point Provincial Park Francis Point Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the southwest end of the Francis Peninsula, south of the community of Pender Harbour on the west side of the Sechelt Peninsula in the Sunshine Coast reg ...

and Francis Point Ecological Reserve.

References

{{Reflist Tidal islands of Canada Landforms of British Columbia Sunshine Coast Regional District

Etymology

Geography

See also

References