Discovery Passage

Discovery Passage
Connects waters	Strait of Georgia
with water	Johnstone Strait
Separates land mass	Vancouver Island
of land mass	Discovery Islands ( Quadra and Sonora Island )
Data
Geographical location	50 ° 13 ′  N , 125 ° 23 ′  W Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′  N , 125 ° 23 ′  W
length	25 km
Coastal towns	Campbell River

The Discovery Passage is the primary link between the Strait of Georgia and Johnstone Strait .

As Discovery Passage and Discovery Passage , a 25 km long waterway is on the eastern edge of Vancouver Iceland referred. It separates the Discovery Islands east of these islands , which lie off the mainland of the Canadian province of British Columbia , more precisely in the northern Georgia Strait , from the largest island off the Canadian west coast. The Discovery Passage connects Georgia Strait in the south with Johnstone Strait in the north. On its east side are mainly Quadra and Sonora Island . Your closest point is the Seymour Narrows . Its southern entrance is roughly level with Campbell River .

George Vancouver gave her the name after his ship, the HMS Discovery , just as he named the first village he visited after one of his officers ( Cape Mudge ). Today it is used as part of the Inside Passage by numerous ships that sail from Vancouver and Victoria , protected from the Pacific winds, behind the islands.

On the largest island east of the passage, on Quadra Island, there are around 2500 inhabitants, of which around 1000 belong to the Kwa 'Kwa' Ka 'Wa'Kw First Nation , which in turn belongs to the Kwakwaka'wakw . They have lived there since about the 1840s or 1850s. The Nuyumbalees Cultural Center is located on the island .

literature

• Harry Assu: Our Local Waters: Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait in My Childhood and Youth , in: Harry Assu and Joy Inglis: Assu of Cape Mudge. Recollections of a Coastal Indian Chief , University of British Columbia Press 1999, pp. 25-38.
• Leonard M. Bell, James M. Thompson: The Campbell River Estuary. Status of Environmental Knowledge to 1977, Report of the Estuary Working Group, Department of Fisheries and the Environment, Regional Board, Pacific Region , Ottawa 1977.

Web links

• Discovery Passage . In: BC Geographical Names (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ John E. Roberts: A Discovery Journal: George Vancouver's First Survey Season - 1792 , Victoria 1991, p. 170.