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Dark Age of Camelot remained at #1 for the week ending on October 20, [31] but fell to third and fifth in the following two weeks, respectively. [32] [33] The game claimed first place on NPD's monthly chart for October 2001. [34] After a ninth-place finish for the week ending on November 10, [35] it was absent from NPD's weekly top 10 and ...
John S. Plaskett, History of Astronomy in British Columbia; Helen Sawyer Hogg, Memories of the Plaskett Era of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory 1931–1934; Photo of DAO, 1920, U. Wash Digital Collections; The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Victoria, B.C. at Project Gutenberg (Book from 1923 about history and construction of the ...
It is there to mark the northbound entrance to Sarah Passage and is situated on the west side of Sarah Island. The light itself is a tower, square pyramidal in shape and made of steel. The tower is white and the square base is red. This is a staffed light consisting of a number of structures and a weather station. Brockton Point Lighthouse
One person in Duncan on Vancouver Island was killed when struck by a falling tree. [1] A Surrey man was severely injured after a tree fell on him. [9] The famous White Rock Pier built in 1914 partially collapsed, trapping a man. He was later rescued by helicopter, without any injuries. 22 of the 30 boats moored at the pier were destroyed or ...
Queen Charlotte Sound (French: Bassin de la Reine-Charlotte) is a sound of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada, between Vancouver Island in the south and Haida Gwaii in the north. It merges with Hecate Strait in the north and Queen Charlotte Strait in the south. [1] Queen Charlotte Sound is part of the Inside Passage shipping route.
The landforms of British Columbia include two major continental landforms, the Interior Plains in the province's northeast, the British Columbia portion of which is part of the Alberta Plateau. The rest of the province is part of the Western Cordillera of North America , often referred to in Canada as the Pacific Cordillera or Canadian Cordillera.
Weather data from the Hucuktlis Lake fish hatchery shows that the lake is situated in the wettest place in North America.Hucuktlis Lake averages 6,903 mm (271.8 in) of precipitation, and in 1997 9,307 mm (366.4 in) fell, setting the all-time Canadian record.
2013 map of Ocean Networks Canada installations at Folger Passage in Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. This site is part of the NEPTUNE observatory in the northeast Pacific. Folger Passage is located at the mouth of Barkley Sound, offshore Vancouver Island near Bamfield, British Columbia. The seafloor composition includes ...