Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a large island off the coast of British Columbia. As a region, it includes the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia. It is often referred to by the locals as simply 'The Island'.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Victoria and Nanaimo.
Victoria
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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.
Nanaimo
Nanaimo is the central hub city of Vancouver Island in BC, Canada. It is the second largest city on the island and has the second biggest harbour. In many ways it is the smaller cousin of Victoria.
Sidney
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Sidney is a town of about 11,500 people north of Victoria, on Vancouver Island. It is generally considered part of the Victoria metropolitan area.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Central Vancouver Island and South Vancouver Island.
Central Vancouver Island
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With coastline on two sides and mountains in the middle, Central Vancouver Island is a popular vacation and recreation area on Vancouver Island. You can take it easy with gentle strolls amongst old-growth trees, walk along wide beaches or check out some of the local museums to learn about the area.
South Vancouver Island
South Vancouver Island is the southernmost and the most populous region of Vancouver Island. It contains BC's provincial capital, Victoria.
Southern Gulf Islands
The Southern Gulf Islands are the Canadian islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia in the Strait of Georgia. This area comprises around twelve inhabited islands, and several hundred more smaller islands and islets.
Discovery Islands
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The Discovery Islands are a group of sparsely populated islands in the Discovery Passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia.
North Vancouver Island
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North Vancouver Island is the more remote, northern part of Vancouver Island. Explore it by booking a tour to see orcas or Grizzly bears, learning about local First Nations or doing a rugged hike through old-growth forest.
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
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Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a national park reserve on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Vancouver Island
- Type: Island with 749,000 residents
- Description: island of British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Île de Vancouver”
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Vancouver Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vancouver Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vancouver-eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة فانكوفر”
- Armenian: “Վանկուվեր”
- Asturian: “Islla de Vancouver”
- Azerbaijani: “Vankuver (ada)”
- Azerbaijani: “Vankuver”
- Bashkir: “Ванкувер”
- Basque: “Vancouver uhartea”
- Basque: “Vancouver”
- Belarusian: “Ванкувер”
- Belarusian: “Ванкувэр”
- Breton: “Enez Vancouver”
- Bulgarian: “Ванкувър”
- Burmese: “ဗန်ကူးဗားကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “illa de Vancouver”
- Catalan: “Illa de Vancouver”
- Catalan: “Illa Vancouver”
- Catalan: “Vancouver”
- Cebuano: “Vancouver Island”
- Chinese: “Vancouver Tó”
- Chinese: “温哥华岛”
- Chinese: “溫哥華島”
- Croatian: “Vancouver”
- Czech: “Vancouver Island”
- Czech: “Vancouver”
- Czech: “Vancouverův ostrov”
- Danish: “Vancouver Island”
- Dutch: “Vancouver eiland”
- Dutch: “Vancouver Island”
- Dutch: “Vancouver-eiland”
- Dutch: “Vancouver”
- Dutch: “Vancouvereiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Vankuvero”
- Esperanto: “Vankuvera Insulo”
- Estonian: “Vancouveri saar”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vancouver Island”
- Finnish: “Vancouver Island”
- Finnish: “Vancouverinsaari”
- French: “Ile de Vancouver”
- French: “île de Vancouver”
- French: “Île de Vancouver”
- French: “Île Vancouver”
- Galician: “Illa de Vancouver”
- Georgian: “ვანკუვერი”
- German: “Vancouver Island”
- German: “Vancouver-Insel”
- Greek: “Νήσος Βανκούβερ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vancouver-tó”
- Hausa: “Vancouver Island”
- Hebrew: “האי ונקובר”
- Hebrew: “ונקובר איילנד”
- Hebrew: “ונקובר”
- Hungarian: “Vancouver-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Vancouver-eyja”
- Icelandic: “Vancouvereyja”
- Ido: “Insulo Vancouver”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Vancouver”
- Irish: “Oileán Vancouver”
- Italian: “isola di Vancouver”
- Italian: “Isola di Vancouver”
- Italian: “Isola Vancouver”
- Italian: “Vancouver Island”
- Japanese: “ヴァンクーヴァー島”
- Japanese: “ヴァンクーバー島”
- Japanese: “バンクーバー島”
- Kazakh: “Vankwver aralı”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер аралы”
- Kazakh: “ۆانكۋۆەر ارالى”
- Korean: “밴쿠버섬”
- Latin: “Insula Vancuverium”
- Latvian: “Vankūvera”
- Lithuanian: “Vankuverio sala”
- Lithuanian: “Vankūverio sala”
- Macedonian: “Ванкувер”
- Malayalam: “വാൻകൂവർ ദ്വീപ്”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vancouver Tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vancouver Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vancouverøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Vancouver”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vancouver Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vancouver-øya”
- Norwegian: “Vancouver Island”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa de Vancouver”
- Ossetian: “Ванкувер”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਨਕੂਵਰ ਆਈਲੈਂਡ”
- Persian: “جزیره ونکوور”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ ونکوور”
- Polish: “Vancouver”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Vancouver”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Vancôver”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Vancouver”
- Romanian: “Insula Vancouver”
- Romanian: “Vancouver Island”
- Russian: “Vancouver”
- Russian: “Ванкувер (остров)”
- Russian: “Ванкувер”
- Russian: “остров Ванкувер”
- Russian: “Остров Ванкувер”
- Serbian: “Vancouver Island”
- Serbian: “Vankuver”
- Serbian: “Ванкувер”
- Serbian: “Острво Ванкувер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vancouver”
- Slovak: “Vancouverov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Vancouvrov otok”
- Spanish: “Isla de Quadra”
- Spanish: “Isla de Vancouver”
- Spanish: “Isla Vancouver”
- Spanish: “Vancouver”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa Vancouver”
- Swedish: “Île de Vancouver”
- Swedish: “Vancouver Island”
- Swedish: “Vancouverön”
- Tamil: “வான்கூவர் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะแวนคูเวอร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Vancouver Island”
- Tumbuka: “Vancouver Island”
- Turkish: “Vancouver Adası”
- Turkish: “Vancouver Island”
- Ukrainian: “Ванкувер”
- Uzbek: “Vankuver”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vancouver Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vancuouver”
- Welsh: “Ynys Vancouver”
- Western Frisian: “Vancouver”
- Western Frisian: “Vancouvereilân”
- Wu Chinese: “温哥华岛”
- Yue Chinese: “溫哥華島”
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