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Bowen Island (Squamish: Nex̱wlélex̱wm; Squamish pronunciation: [nəχʷˈlələχʷm]), British Columbia, is an island municipality that is part of Metro Vancouver, and within the jurisdiction of the Islands Trust. [7]
Bowen Island is a sandstone island lying 250 metres (270 yd) off the tip of the Bherwerre Peninsula at the entrance to Jervis Bay, on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The island, however, is not part of the state of New South Wales but of the Jervis Bay Territory , administered by Australia's federal government .
The Bowen Island ferry travels between Snug Cove on Bowen Island, and Horseshoe Bay in the District of West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a trip of three nautical miles across Queen Charlotte Channel. A scheduled ferry has been in operation since 1921, when Bowen Island was a popular holiday destination.
Bowen Island is the most populous island and is nearest Vancouver, being just opposite Horseshoe Bay. It is incorporated as an island municipality and is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver. Gambier Island is the largest of the Howe Sound islands, to the northwest of Bowen, near the Langdale ferry landing. Gambier has a small resident ...
Snug Cove is a community on the east coast of Bowen Island, British Columbia, opposite Horseshoe Bay.The island is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) wide by 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the mainland, and has a population of around 3,700 people.
Broughton Archipelago. Broughton Island; North Broughton Island; Eden Island; Bonwick Island; Baker Island; Cormorant Island (loc. of Alert Bay); Hardwicke Island; Harbledown Island, site of New Vancouver
The Jervis Bay Territory (/ ˈ dʒ ɜːr v ɪ s, ˈ dʒ ɑːr-/; "JBT") [2] [3] [4] is an internal Australian territory [5].It was established in 1915 by the transfer of jurisdiction from the state of New South Wales to the federal Commonwealth of Australia, [6] [7] in order to give the federal government control of a port in the vicinity of the landlocked Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
In the Jervis Bay Territory on the southern side of the bay are the settlements of Greenpatch, Hyams Beach, and Bowen Island. From north to south on the New South Wales shore of the bay are Callala Beach, Callala Bay, Huskisson and Vincentia. Beecroft Peninsula, on the northern side of the bay, has been used as a bombing range by the RAN. [32]