Galiano Island
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Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is 27.5 km (17.1 mi) long, 6 km (3.7 mi) at its widest point, and 1.6 km (1.0 mi) across at its narrowest point and is separated from Saltspring Island by Trincomali Channel. On the western side of the island there are a series of sandstone caves. The island is northwest of Mayne Island, northeast of Saltspring Island and southeast of Valdes Island. It is part of the Capital Regional District Electoral Area G, and has a population of 1044 inhabitants. Named after the Spanish explorer Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, who explored the area in 1792, (the island is twinned with his home city - Cabra in Córdoba province, Spain). Galiano was long inhabited by aboriginal people from the Penelakut First Nation and used by other Coast Salish nations. Midden pits at Montague Harbour suggest 3000 years of habitation. Today there is only one Indian Reserve on the island, Galiano Indian Reserve No. 9, located at the northern tip of the island and under Penelakut administration. Industries of the past were logging, fishing and charcoal-burning, although today tourism and the arts are the most common methods of employment.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galiano_Island
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Coordinates: 48°56'12"N 123°26'59"W
- Thetis Island 21 km
- Valdes Island 29 km
- Sea Island 35 km
- Iona Island 38 km
- downtown island 47 km
- downtown island 47 km
- Bowen Island 54 km
- Gambier Island 67 km
- Seabird Island 131 km
- Long Island 133 km
- Retreat Cove 4.1 km
- Laughlin Lake 4.3 km
- Bodega Ridge Provincial Park 6.4 km
- Connover Cove 6.9 km
- Princess Cove 7.7 km
- Galiano Island Ecological Reserve 8.9 km
- Spotlight Cove 10 km
- Dionisio Point Provincial Park 12 km
- Porlier Pass 13 km
- Strait of Georgia 23 km