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North Broughton Island. Eden Island. Bonwick Island. Baker Island. Cormorant Island (loc. of Alert Bay) Hardwicke Island. Harbledown Island, site of New Vancouver. Malcolm Island (loc. of Sointula) Turnour Island, site of Kalugwis (Karlukwees)
V1P, V1V – V1Z, V4T. Area code (s) 250, 778, 236, 672. GNBC Code. JAFUV [7] Website. kelowna.ca. Kelowna (/ kəˈloʊnə / ⓘ kə-LOH-nə) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan.
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, bordered by the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 944,735 km 2 (364,764 sq mi) it is Canada's third-largest province. The province is almost four times the size of the United Kingdom and larger than every United States state except Alaska.
Geography. [edit] Sandstone formation on the west coast of Galiano. Located on the western edge of the Salish Sea, Galiano is a long, narrow island, 27.5 km (17.1 mi) in length and 1.6 km (0.99 mi) at its narrowest point. Mount Galiano is Galiano's highest point, rising 314 m (1,030 ft) above sea level. [ 13 ]
The British Columbia Interior, popularly referred to as the BC Interior or simply the Interior, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.While the exact boundaries are variously defined, the British Columbia Interior is generally defined to include the 14 regional districts that do not have coastline along the Pacific Ocean or Salish Sea, and are not part of the ...
The strait is between 2.5 km (1.6 mi) and 5 km (3.1 mi) wide. It is a major navigation channel on the west coast of North America.It is the preferred channel for vessels from the Strait of Georgia leaving to the north of Vancouver Island through the Queen Charlotte Strait bound for Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii, Alaska, and the North Pacific Ocean, and for southbound vessels from those areas ...
Province. British Columbia. The Discovery Islands are a group of islands located at the northern end of the Salish Sea and the eastern end of Johnstone Strait, between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada. Most of these islands have very few residents. Only Quadra Island and Cortes Island have ferry service.
222,162. Time zone. UTC-8 (PST) • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT) Greater Kelowna (officially known as Kelowna Census Metropolitan Area) is a metropolitan area in British Columbia, the third largest in British Columbia and the largest in the interior. It's the fastest growing metropolitan area within B.C and the fifth fastest growing in all of Canada.