Work Island
Work Island is an islet in British Columbia, Canada. Work Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood James Bay, as well as near Victoria West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Victoria Inner Harbour Seaplane Base and Old Victoria Custom House.
Victoria Inner Harbour Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Photo: ConifersOfGnarnia, CC BY 4.0.
Victoria Inner Harbour Airport or Victoria Harbour Water Airport is located in Victoria Harbour, adjacent to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The airport is classified as an airport of entry by Transport Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency.
Old Victoria Custom House
Historic building
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Victoria Custom House, also known as the Malahat Building, in Victoria was completed in 1875 and designated as a historic building in 1987. It is a three-storey, mansard-roofed, custom house overlooking Victoria's harbour, symbolizing the era when Victoria was the pre-eminent commercial centre on Canada's West Coast.
Douglas Obelisk
Obelisk
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Douglas Obelisk is an 8-metre marble obelisk, installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The sculpture was erected in 1881 to honour Sir James Douglas, the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, and was made by Mortimer & Reid using marble from Beaver Cove, Vancouver Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Esquimalt and Chinatown.
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…
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.
Victoria
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Victoria is the capital of Canada's westernmost province; British Columbia, near the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.
Work Island
- Type: Islet
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
48.42339° or 48° 25′ 24″ northLongitude
-123.39453° or 123° 23′ 40″ westOpen location code
84WRCJF4+95OpenStreetMap ID
way 159874171OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
6184562
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