Get to know BC: islands

Entrance Island
(Image: Dave King/CC BY 2.0, Flickr)

“Get to know BC” is a new occasional feature with fun facts about the province.

Did you know
BC has about 40,000 islands?

There are islands of many different sizes.
The largest is Vancouver Island. Some are mid-sized islands, like Salt Spring Island. Ivory Island and Entrance Island are very small islands.

Some islands are for sale. Some islands are parks, like Discovery Island.

Here is a list of BC islands.

Read the WCR article, “Haida Gwaii wins 7-wonders of BC vote.”

(Sources: Adapted from The Vancouver Sun and Wikipedia.org)