Haro Strait

Geographical location

The Haro Strait (English Haro Strait) is a 40 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide waterway of the Pacific Ocean in the southwestern part of British Columbia, the Vancouver Iceland and the San Juan Islands separates. The course of the road forms the border between Canada and the United States.

At the same time the shipping lane one of the busiest on the North American west coast, as it forms the main access route to the Port of Vancouver and in the Strait of Georgia.

Definition

The USGS defined as described in the following the progression or the limits of Haro Strait. In the southwest Discovery Iceland is, in Victoria, to a corner and the southern end of San Juan Iceland the other vertex. In the north, the boundary of the Haro Strait is starting at the north end of the Saanich Peninsula of Vancouver Iceland and then along the islands Piers Iceland, Portland Iceland, Moresby Iceland, Stuart Iceland and Henry Iceland formed the north end of San Juan Iceland by a line.

By this definition, the Haro Strait is at its northern end, however, not directly into the Strait of Georgia over, but the two are only connected by the Boundary Pass.

Other definitions of the road involve the Boundary Pass in the description of the Haro Strait with a.

History

According to the most widely used version, the street was named in 1790 by Spanish explorers Manuel Quimper and captain in honor of his navigator, Gonzalo Lopez de Haro. A different version refers to the Archbishop of Mexico ( 1772-1800 ) Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, who is said to have stood for the name Pate.

Before the road of European explorers got her name, and the distant islands but there 've been hunting and settlement area of different First Nation, as the Lummi, the Saanich or the Klallam.

1846, with the so-called Oregon Treaty the border between the U.S. and the UK, along the 49th parallel, in the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver Iceland, and in the middle of the Juan de Fuca Strait to the Pacific Ocean set. Due to the many islands located there, there are two waterways that run through the middle of the channel, on the one hand the Haro Strait west of the San Juan Islands and the second Rosario Strait along the east side of the island group. To the exact course of the border broke a 1859 "war" from the swine conflict. With the compromise reached at the end of the Haro Strait became the border.

On the located in the Haro Strait Island D'Arcy Iceland a leper colony for Chinese immigrants was housed in the period 1894-1924.

Climate

The climate and water temperatures in the Haro Strait generally correspond to that of the surrounding area the road from Georgia, the Juan de Fuca Strait and Rosario Strait. According to the Köppen climate classification, the climate is Mediterranean ( Csb ).

Fauna

In addition to whale and Steller sea lion shear here can also find various kinds of salmon and other fish. Also numerous seabirds can be spotted, such as the guillemot.