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Kitimat is a district municipality in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine regional government. The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban district in northwest British Columbia, which includes Terrace to the north along the Skeena River Valley.
Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.
The Kitimat Ranges, rising behind Kitimat, British Columbia. The Kitimat Ranges lie between the Nass River and Portland Inlet in the north [2] and the Bella Coola River and Burke Channel on the south, and are bounded on their east by the Hazelton Mountains and include the mountainous islands of the North Coastal Archipelago, as well as King Island, which lies between Dean Channel and the ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
British Columbia Highway 25, also known as the Terrace–Kitimat Highway, was a 59 km (37 mi) long spur of the Yellowhead Highway in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. First opened on 28 September 1957 at a cost of $3.5 million ($34.83 million in 2022), [ 4 ] [ 5 ] it provides a connection from Terrace , on Highway 16 , south to Kitimat ...
The Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine is a local government administration in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. [3] As of the 2021 Canadian census, it had a population of 37,790 living on a land area of 104,307.25 km 2 (40,273.25 sq mi). [2] Its administrative offices are in the city of Terrace.
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California, the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America, including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations.
The Kitimat Ranges are one of the three main subdivisions of the Coast Mountains, which are part of the Pacific Coast Ranges subdivision of the North American Cordillera. Located in British Columbia , Canada, between the North Coast region and the Interior Plateau and the Hazelton Mountains .