Galiano Island
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Galiano Iceland is an island that lies on the west coast of Canada between the mainland and Vancouver Iceland. The island in the Strait of Georgia is 27.5 kilometers long and 1.6 to 6 km wide and is one of the southern Gulf Islands. The highest mountain on the island is 342 m high Mount Galiano.
The census in 2011 showed a population of 1,138 residents of the island. Administratively, the island is part of the Capital Regional District, where it forms, including together with Saturna Iceland, Iceland Mayne, North and South Pender Iceland, the district chapter G.
History
The island was named after the explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano - (1762-1805), who visited the island in 1792. Therefore, the island maintains a partnership with his hometown of Cabra in Andalusia. Galiano was inhabited at the time of coastal Salish. Middens of shells and other food waste at Montague Harbour rich back to 1000 BC. Also at Dionisio Point, descriptions of such middens. These middens go on a use of the island as a settlement and fishing territory of different First Nations, mainly by the people of Penelakut back.
1951 bought the timber company MacMillan Bloedel almost half of the island. 1974, a plan was launched to prevent excessive immigration to the island, which would have destroyed the rural, urban living away.
Parks
On the island, the first marine park was established. Montague Harbour Marine Provincial Park is the most visited parks on the island. Something is quiet Dionisio Point Provincial Park in the north with a long beach, whose name is on the Coon Island Bay. Good infrastructure are also the Bellhouse Provincial Park and Bodega Ridge Provincial Park. protected by the parks found on the island and numerous migratory birds, but also eagles and cormorants. The island is home to around 130 species of birds. Also, there are killer whales, seals, otters and sea lions.
Traffic
Galiano Iceland (at Sturdies Bay in the southeast ) accessible by ferry, from the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal on the mainland and Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal on Vancouver Iceland. Traffic Technically, even the Active Pass of importance. This is a strait formed by Galiano and Mayne Iceland Iceland and through which one of the ferry from the mainland to Vancouver Iceland.
Personalities
- The author Jane Rule lived from 1976 until her death in 2007 on Galiano Iceland.
- Decades of residence of the anthropologist Robin Ridington.