Granville Island
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zhatt, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Granville Street Bridge and BC Place.
Granville Street Bridge
Bridge
The Granville Street Bridge or Granville Bridge is an eight-lane fixed cantilever/truss bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, carrying Granville Street between Downtown Vancouver southwest and the Fairview neighborhood.
BC Place
Stadium
Photo: Yvrphoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation of the province.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yaletown and Davie Village.
Yaletown
Neighborhood
Yaletown is an area of Downtown Vancouver, Canada, bordered by False Creek and Robson and Homer Streets. Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
Davie Village
Neighborhood
Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.
Davie Village is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood.
Yaletown-False Creek
Photo: Thom Quine, CC BY 2.0.
Yaletown-False Creek encompasses the established neighbourhood of Yaletown and the still-developing area of Southeast False Creek. Reclaimed industrial areas, both neighbourhoods are a mix of modern condo architecture and restored industrial warehouses.
Granville Island
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: peninsula (formerly an island) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: peninsula and locality
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.27071° or 49° 16′ 15″ northLongitude
-123.13429° or 123° 8′ 3″ westElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
84XR7VC8+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 3944772462OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Granville Island” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գրենվիլ Այլենդ”
- Cebuano: “Granville Island”
- Chinese: “固蘭湖島”
- Dutch: “Granville Island”
- Esperanto: “Granville-Insulo”
- French: “Granville Island”
- German: “Granville Island”
- Persian: “جزیره گرنویل”
- Persian: “گرانویل آیلند”
- Serbian: “Гренвил Ајланд”
- Swedish: “Granville Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Granville Island Broom Co. and Dalbergia Wood + Fine Objects.
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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 “Granville Island”. Photo: Zhatt, Public domain.