George Vancouver
George Vancouver is a work of art in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia. George Vancouver is situated nearby to the pond Front Fountain, as well as near Premier’s Rose Garden.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal British Columbia Museum and Douglas Obelisk.
Royal British Columbia Museum
Museum
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The Royal British Columbia Museum, founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year. Royal British Columbia Museum is situated 170 metres east of George Vancouver.
Douglas Obelisk
Obelisk
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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. Douglas Obelisk is situated 110 metres north of George Vancouver.
Front Fountain
Pond
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Front Fountain is a fountain designed by Hooper & Watkins, installed outside the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, in Victoria, British Columbia. It was manufactured in 1905, by Joseph W.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Chinatown.
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.
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.
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… Esquimalt is situated 3½ km west of George Vancouver.
George Vancouver
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Category: tourism
- Location: Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.4196° or 48° 25′ 11″ northLongitude
-123.37024° or 123° 22′ 13″ westOpen location code
84WRCJ9H+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 11873484270OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statue
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