Prevost Island

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Prevost Iceland is a 685 -acre island off the southeast coast of Iceland Vancouver on Canada's Pacific coast. It is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia; while the Prevostinsel is close to Ganges Harbour, halfway between the southeast end of Salt Spring Iceland in the west and the south end of Galiano Iceland in the east. The island was named after James Charles Prevost, the British Commissioner during the border dispute between Canada and the United States in the years 1858 to 1870 was the " pig war".

History

In the early 1980s it was found on the island of a midden consisting mainly of marine shell, a waste hills, occupying a very early use of the island. This køkkenmøddinger after the Danish term designated kitchen middens are relatively common in the region of the Gulf Islands - about thirty are known - but there is a hill on Prevost Iceland as the only within the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and also he is off the coast. Therefore, it could be a ritual space or a commercial space. The Tsawout First Nation assumes that their ancestors left behind by history, traces of which are to be excavated now. Therefore participated in 2013 in addition to twelve students of the University of Victoria, two representatives of the tribe in the campaign part.

In the 1920s, the Irishman Digby de Burgh acquired the island of grazing sheep, goats and cattle there. More building next to where this family originated in the northwest of the island. About 80 hectares of the island's land area were used in the late 1980s agrarian.

1895 was built at the east end of the island is a lighthouse, the Portlock Point Lighthouse, built in 1890, instead of a beacon.

Flora and Fauna

On deciduous trees are found on the island of red or Oregon alder ( Alnus rubra), Big Leaf Maple ( Acer macrophyllum ), the poplar Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa, then Nuttall's flowering dogwood (Cornus nuttallii ) and emarginata, which belonged to the genus Prunus Prunus, cherry here called bitter.