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Pachena Bay, the Glossary

Pachena Bay is located south of Bamfield in Pacific Rim National Park at the southern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.^[1]

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Bays of British Columbia
Bodies of water of Vancouver Island

Bamfield

Bamfield is a community that is surrounded by Crown Land, First Nation Lands belonging to the Huu-ay-aht Nations, and portions of the Pacific Rim National Park, located on Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

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Band government

In Canada, an Indian band (bande indienne), First Nation band (bande de la Première Nation) or simply band, is the basic unit of government for those peoples subject to the Indian Act (i.e. status Indians or First Nations).

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Barkley Sound

Barkley Sound, also known historically as Barclay Sound, is south of Ucluelet and north of Bamfield on the west coast of Vancouver Island and forms the entrance to the Alberni Inlet.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Cascadia subduction zone

The Cascadia subduction zone is a fault at a convergent plate boundary, about off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Huu-ay-aht First Nations

The Huu-ay-aht First Nations is a First Nations based on Pachena Bay about northwest of Victoria, British Columbia on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in Canada.

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Kiix-in

Kiix-in, or Kiix?in, earlier romanized as Keeshan, was the principal residence of the Huu-ay-aht (Ohiaht) group of the Nuu-chah-nulth people.

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Maa-nulth First Nations

The Maa-nulth First Nations, also known as First Nations of Maa-nulth Treaty Society, is a First Nations Treaty Society of Nuu-chah-nulth nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

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Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council

The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

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Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is a national park located in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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