CFB Esquimalt
Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt is the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Military base
- Description: Canada’s Pacific Coast naval base
- Also known as: “Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt” and “Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Esquimalt Lighthouse and Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine.
Esquimalt Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Bruce Tuten, CC BY 2.0.
Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, on Fisgard Island at the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia, is the site of Fisgard Lighthouse, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada. Esquimalt Lighthouse is situated 1 km west of CFB Esquimalt.
Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine
Bunker
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lower Battery gun emplacement and magazine is a bunker, which is situated 1¼ km west of CFB Esquimalt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Esquimalt and View Royal.
Esquimalt
Town
Photo: Kyle Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and…
View Royal
Town
Photo: John Newcomb, CC BY 3.0.
View Royal is a town in Greater Victoria and a member municipality of the Capital Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. View Royal has a population of 11,575 residents. View Royal is situated 2½ km north of CFB Esquimalt.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858. Chinatown is situated 5 km east of CFB Esquimalt.
CFB Esquimalt
- Categories: naval base, organization, and museum
- Location: Esquimalt, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“CFB Esquimalt” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Base des Forces canadiennes Esquimalt”
- Dutch: “CFB Esquimalt”
- French: “base des Forces canadiennes Esquimalt”
- French: “Base des Forces canadiennes Esquimalt”
- French: “BFC Esquimalt”
- French: “CFB Esquimalt”
- German: “CFB Esquimalt”
- Japanese: “エスカイモルト海軍基地”
- Japanese: “エスクィマルト基地”
- Japanese: “エスクイモルト基地”
- Japanese: “エスクワイモルト海軍基地”
- Russian: “БКВС Эскуаймолт”
- Russian: “Эскуаймолт (база Канадских вооружённых сил)”
- Russian: “Эскуаймолт”
- Swedish: “Base des Forces canadiennes Esquimalt”
- Swedish: “Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt”
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