Passage Island
Passage Island is a small island near West Vancouver, British Columbia, and across from Bowen Island in Canada. The island is mostly woodland and cliffs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point Atkinson Lighthouse and Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal.
Point Atkinson Lighthouse
Photo: Clayoquot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Point Atkinson Lighthouse is a lighthouse erected on Point Atkinson, a headland in southwestern British Columbia named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792, when he was exploring the Pacific Northwest in the ship Discovery. Point Atkinson Lighthouse is situated 3½ km southeast of Passage Island.
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
Station
Horseshoe Bay is a major ferry terminal of BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Located in the community of Horseshoe Bay, a neighbourhood of West Vancouver, the terminal provides a vehicle ferry link from the Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, and to Bowen Island, a small island in the southern part of Howe Sound. Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal is situated 3½ km northeast of Passage Island.
Passage Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.34318° or 49° 20′ 36″ northLongitude
-123.30588° or 123° 18′ 21″ westElevation
30 metres (98 feet)Open location code
84XR8MVV+7JOpenStreetMap ID
way 49743508OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
6099022Wikidata ID
Q7142462
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Passage Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Passage Island”
- Dutch: “Passage Island”
- French: “Passage Island”
- Romanian: “Passage Island”
- Swedish: “Passage Island, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Passage Island”
- Turkish: “Passage Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Passage Island”. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.