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Kaien Island is a Canadian island on the coast of British Columbia, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River and to the south of the Alaska Panhandle. The island has an area of about 45 square kilometres (11,000 acres), is roughly oval, and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long along its long axis. [2]
Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Its location is on Kaien Island near the Alaskan panhandle. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12,220 people as of 2016.
Kaien Island is a Canadian island on the coast of British Columbia, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River and to the south of the Alaska Panhandle. Overview Map
Situated off the shores of continental British Columbia on secluded Kaien Island, Prince Rupert is steeped in the history of the Pacific Northwest. The area is the heart of Tsimshian Nation and is home also to other First Nations, including Haida, Gitksan and Nisga'a people.
Kaien Island is a Canadian island on the coast of British Columbia, just north of the mouth of the Skeena River and to the south of the Alaska Panhandle. The island has an area of about 45 square kilometres, is roughly oval, and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long along its long axis.
The picturesque coastal city of Prince Rupert is nestled narrowly on Kaien Island at the mouth of the Skeena River, one of the longest undammed rivers remaining in the world, where a few dozen kilometres west, the swells of the open Pacific Ocean make landfall.
Prince Rupert, city, on Kaien Island in Chatham Sound, western British Columbia, Canada. It lies near the mouth of the Skeena River on the Pacific coast, 934 miles (1,503 km) northwest of Vancouver. Named in 1906 for Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, it began as a tent town.
