Digg
Reddit

Your Answer…

You asked:

facts about Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island, the island belonging to Canada

geographical area, island, populated place
Population
748,937; 740,876; 734,860
Area
32,134 square kilometres
Births
Pamela Anderson, Nelly Furtado, Justin Chatwin, Diana Krall, Barry Pepper,  …
Origin of
Sarah Neufeld, Carey Mercer
Location
Canada, British Columbia
Location of
Victoria; Campbell River; Nanaimo; Duncan; Langford;  …
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island
Deaths
Nellie McClung, Carol Shields, J. Lee Thompson, George Pan Cosmatos, Sebastian Cabot,  …
Coordinates
48°30'00"N, 49°30'00"N, 49°00'00"N, 125°30'00"W, 124°00'00"W
Overlaps
Mount Work, Nine Peaks, Mount Albert Edward, Castlecrag Mountain, Twin Peaks
Nearest Settlement of
Sproat Lake, Shawnigan Lake, Great Central Lake, Buttle Lake, Cameron Lake,  …
Mouth of
Chemainus River
Class
island, populated place, geographical area
Named-for Thing of
George Vancouver
Gns Unique Feature Identifier
"-575271"
Related Websites
http://jirislama.com/index.php/en/photoblog/trips-and-pictures/58-vancisl, http://www.vancouverisland.travel, http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/Publications/reports_and_studies/fixed_link/fixed_link.htm, http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/geodyn/gpscrust_e.php, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/c/ca_vi.jpg
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000675c2"
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Vancouver_Island
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/0dyg2"
Tell me what you know about Vancouver Island, the large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific coast of North America between 1791 and 1794.
Report Abuse
Rate this answer:
Vote
or Vote
Answering questions based on 635,025,637 facts on 27,916,360 things

Answers from our users:

We have no user supplied answers for this question yet.
Be the first to contribute one here

The best answers stand alone—make sense without the question being present—and are high quality English.


Submit Answer

External web pages (using standard web search):

In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper found a glitch in her computer. After investigating, she discovered the system had a bug - a real one. Turns out a moth made its way into ...
A fact (derived from the Latin factum, see below) is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that ...
Hooray! Interesting Facts Dot Org is the website dedicated to happily inform you about all the interesting, strange and cool facts about world, science and internet.
FACT is a Liverpool-based cinema, art gallery and the UK's leading organisation for the support & exhibition of film, art and new media.
Top 10 Lists: This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my ...

Other questions about this:

tk10publ tk10canl

Other ways this question is asked:

  • vancouver island
  • vancouver island facts
  • what is vancouver island?

Add our Knowledge to your App

Developers: Connect your program to True Knowledge.

Use it to solve problems or add content to a site or bring Q&A to your app.

Free trial.