Bamfield
Bamfield is a small coastal town of about 180 people in Central Vancouver Island. It is divided by Bamfield Inlet. Bamfield is a tourist destination for the West Coast Trail, ocean kayaking and sport fishing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 179 residents
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Bamfield, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Research institute
Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre is a marine research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, Barkley Sound, British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary.
Bamfield
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Alberni–Clayoquot Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.8331° or 48° 49′ 59″ northLongitude
-125.1411° or 125° 8′ 28″ westPopulation
179Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)IATA airport code
YBFOpen location code
84WPRVM5+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 33541135OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Bamfield” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бамфиелд”
- Cebuano: “Bamfield”
- Dutch: “Bamfield, British Columbia”
- Dutch: “Bamfield”
- French: “Bamfield (Colombie-Britannique)”
- French: “Bamfield”
- German: “Bamfield”
- Irish: “Bamfield”
- Spanish: “Bamfield”
- Swedish: “Bamfield”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bamfield”. Photo: Rick McCharles, CC BY 2.0.