List of islands of British Columbia facts for kids

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This is a list of islands of British Columbia.

South Coast

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Gulf of Georgia

Gulf Islands

Southern Gulf Islands

Brethour Island
Cabbage Island
Curlew Island
De Courcy Islands
- Mudge Island
- Link Island
- Ruxton Island
- Pylades Island
Gabriola Island
Galiano Island
Gossip Island
SIS¶ENEM (Halibut Island)
Hudson Island
James Island

Leech Island
Little Shell Island
Mayne Island
Moresby Island
Parker Island
Penelakut (Formerly Kuper Island)
Pender Island (North and South)
Piers Island
Portland
Prevost Island
Pylades Island
Reid Island
Russell Island
Ruxton Island
Saltspring Island
Samuel Island
Saturna Island

Secret Island
Secretary Islands
Sidney Island
Tent Island
Tree Island
Tumbo Island
Thetis Island
Valdes Island
Wallace Island
Whaleboat Island
Wise Island

Northern Gulf Islands

Ballenas Islands
Denman Island
Hornby Island

Harwood Island
Jedediah Island
Lasqueti Island

Sandy Island (aka Tree Island)
Savary Island
Texada Island

Discovery Islands

While included here, because of their location at the northern end of the Gulf of Georgia, Cortes and Quadra islands are often categorized as part of the Northern Gulf Islands.

Sunshine Coast

Edgecombe Island
Grant Island
Merry Island
Nelson Island
Thormanby Islands

Howe Sound

Bowyer Island
Defence Islands

Pasley Island

West Coast of Vancouver Island

Barclay Sound

Broken Islands Group

Cape Scott

Cape Scott Islands
Lanz and Cox Islands

Nootka Sound

Bligh Island
Nootka Island

Kyuquot Sound

Union Island

Clayoquot Sound

Meares Island
Flores Island
Vargas Island
Solander Island

Lower Mainland

NB Most of the islands in this section are river or lake islands, not coastal islands. Deadman's Island is in Coal Harbour (Burrard Inlet), Echo and Long Islands are in Harrison Lake. All others are in the Fraser River and its estuary.

Annacis Island
Barnston Island
Deadman's Island (Burrard Inlet)
Deas Island
Douglas Island
Crescent Island

Echo Island
Herrling Island
Iona Island
Long Island
Lulu Island
Matsqui Island

Central Coast

Johnstone Strait-Queen Charlotte Strait region

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
Malcolm Island (loc. of Sointula)

Turnour Island, site of Kalugwis (Karlukwees)
Village Island, site of Memkumlis (Mamalilikalla)
Hull Island
West Cracroft Island
East Cracroft Island
Klaoitsis Island
Kamano Island
Hanson Island
Minstrel Island
Gilford Island, site of Gwayasdums

Fitz Hugh Sound-Dean Channel region

Calvert Island
Campbell Island
Cunningham Island

Denny Island
Dufferin Island
King Island
Hecate Island

Hunter Island
Yeo Island

North Coast

Queen Charlotte Sound-Hecate Strait region

Gribbell Island
Gil Island
Hawkesbury Island
Kohl Island
Lady Douglas Island
McCauley Island
Pitt Island
Pooley Island

Porcher Island
Price Island
Princess Royal Island
Roderick Island
Sarah Island
Susan Island
Swindle Island

Dixon Entrance-Portland Channel region

Pearse Island
Somerville Island

Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)

Anthony Island
Burnaby Island
Chaatl Island
Frederick Island
Graham Island
Hibben Island

Lyell Island
Maude Island
Moresby Island
Ramsay Island
Talunkwan Island
Tanu Island

Interior

Grant Island, Lake Okanagan
Rattlesnake Island, Lake Okanagan
Copper Island, Shuswap Lake

Lady Franklin Rock, Fraser Canyon
Saddle Rock, Fraser Canyon
Zuckerberg Island, at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers

See also

British Columbia Coast

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