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Queen Charlotte Islands

an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, off the Canadian coast. It includes the islands of Graham, Moresby, Louise, Lyell, and Kunghit and covers an area of 10,282 sq km. The island group belongs to the outer chain of the Canadian Cordilleras, part of which is submerged. The western coasts of the islands are mountainous and fjorded, rising to an elevation of 1250 m. In the northeast there is a broad lowland into which the Masset Inlet deeply penetrates. The climate is mild and very humid. Coniferous forests cover the islands. There are deposits of coal.

Logging and fishing are the major industries. The population totals approximately 3,000 (1965), about 1,000 of it consisting of Indians on reservations. The largest community is the village of Queen Charlotte. The archipelago was discovered and put on the map in 1774 by the Spanish expedition of J. Perez; it was later named in honor of the British queen by G. Vancouver.

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The Ancient Murrelet: A natural history of the Queen Charlotte Islands. London, UK: T and AD Poyser.

REVISITING EVIDENCE FOR HISTORIC PRESENCE OF NORTHWESTERN DEERMOUSE (PEROMYSCUS KEENI) ON LANGARA ISLAND, HAIDA GWAII, BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Queen Charlotte Islands, which are also known by their official indigenous name of Haida Gwaii, comprise about 150 islands located North of Canada's Vancouver Island.

Tsunami Hits Hawaii after Canada Quake

In the even-year broodline, the largest regional genetic differentiation was observed between populations from the east coast of Vancouver Island and those from the Queen Charlotte Islands ([F.sub.ST]=0.007), whereas the least differentiation between regional groups of populations was observed between the northern and central coastal regions of British Columbia ([F.sub.ST]=0.001) (Table 6).

Population structure of pink salmon (oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in British Columbia and washington, determined with microsatellites

1929: M 7.0, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia

Canada's earthquakes: 'the good, the bad, and the ugly'

Dawson's commitment to constructing imaginative colonial geographies of settler space in BC is particularly apparent with respect to his work on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Having surveyed these islands extensively in 1878, Dawson produced a substantial official report that was imbued with an anticipatory vision of Euro-Canadian settlement and resource extraction (Dawson 1880).

Vanishing the Haida: George Dawson's ethnographic vision and the making of settler space on the Queen Charlotte Islands in the late nineteenth century

The golden spruce of the title was a giant tree that grew on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, Canada.

Vaillant, John. The golden spruce; a true story of myth, madness, and greed

The most recent, Afternoon of the Chimeras, was filmed in the Queen Charlotte Islands. "A helicopter dropped us and left us for four weeks," Barton said.

Aszure all over

The once colorful totem poles of the Queen Charlotte Islands, now bleached and cracked, stare out to sea with quiet dignity.

The totems of Haida Gwaii

Our next film location was Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands located about an hour and half off the coast of Vancouver.

The making of Who We Are, now showing at the NMAI Lelawi Theater

The golden spruce was a 165-foot-tall mutant that survived 300 years and was revered by the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia.

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

This particular case arose because the Haida were in the midst of a land claim concerning their rights in the Queen Charlotte Islands (which I think we should all at least consider now calling "Haida Gwaii").

Supreme Court confirms duty to consult with aboriginal peoples: Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests)

In the Haida case the Haida Nation argued that the province and lumber giant Weyerhaeuser should have consulted its members before starting to log on their ancestral homeland, the Queen Charlotte Islands (known as Haida Gwaii).

Crown's duty to consult established