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Kokanee Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park on the west shore of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Highway 3A bisects the park 19 kilometres (12 mi) east of Nelson. Established as a BC Provincial Park in 1955, it encompasses 260 hectares of sandy beaches, deltas, and coniferous forest. [3] [4]
Kikomun Creek is situated in the southern region of the Rocky Mountain Trench, on the eastern shores of a man-made reservoir along the Kootenay River.This 685-hectare park provides recreational access to Lake Koocanusa, whose name is supposedly a combination of Kootenay, Canada and United States.
BC Parks is an agency of the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy that manages all of the, as of 2020, [3] 1,035 provincial parks and other conservation and historical properties of various title designations within the province's Parks oversaw of the British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System.
Skookumchuck is in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. This locality straddles both shores of the Kootenay River north of the mouth of the Lussier River. [1] The crossing, on the merged section of highways 93 and 95, is by road about 54 kilometres (34 mi) north of Cranbrook and 193 kilometres (120 mi) southeast of Golden.
The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay Land District, though some variation exists in terms of what areas are or are not a part.The strictest definition of the region is the drainage basin of the lower Kootenay River from its re-entry into Canada near Creston, through to its confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar (illustrated by a, right).
Kootenay National Park is a national park of Canada in southeastern British Columbia. The park consists of 1,406 km 2 (543 sq mi) of the Canadian Rockies , including parts of the Kootenay and Park mountain ranges , the Kootenay River and the entirety of the Vermilion River .
Boat Encampment is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The locality was at the tip of the Big Bend on the north shore of the Columbia River . [ 1 ] The general vicinity, on the former Big Bend Highway , was by road about 151 kilometres (94 mi) northwest of Golden and 159 kilometres (99 mi) north of ...
The largest kingfisher in Africa is the giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima), which is 42 to 46 cm (17 to 18 in) in length and 255–426 g (9.0–15.0 oz) in weight. [17] The common Australian kingfisher, known as the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), is the heaviest species, with females reaching nearly 500 g (18 oz) in weight. [18]