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Salt Spring Island summary
Saltspring Island (also known as Salt Spring Island) is the largest, most populated, and most visited of the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. It
was named by officers of the Hudson's Bay Company for the cold and briny saltwater springs on the north end of the island.
Saltspring Island, in the Capital Regional District is the most densely populated of the Gulf Islands and is also home to the largest Gulf Island provincial campground,
Ruckle Provincial Park. The island's shoreline is varied and beautiful, offering rocky shores, tidal pools to explore, shell beaches for beachcombing, and a wide variety
of sandy beaches. Of the 22 ocean beaches, 4 are designated for swimming.
Many of the beaches which developed thousands of years ago now lie well above sea level and have left Saltspring Island with thick deposits of sand which is often gravelly.
Finer-textured soils are more scattered, except in the Fulford Valley, where they are dominant. Shallow, stony loams are common over sedimentary rock. Stony sandy loam is
the usual soil cover on more mountainous terrain. Brown Podzolic soils dominate the well-drained areas; gleysols and mucks occupy poorly drained sites.
The rugged and mountainous southern end of the island is dominated by Mount Tuam and Mount Bruce, separated from the equally mountainous mid-island region by the Fulford
Valley, between Fulford Harbour and Burgoyne Bay. The central part of the island is dominated by Mt. Maxwell (Baynes Peak) and Mount Erskine. The north end of the island
has much lower elevations, with rolling pastures, deciduous forests and the majority of residential developments, mainly around the village of Ganges.
Saltspring Island is 29 km (18 miles) long and up to 14 km (9 miles) wide, with 133 km (83 miles) of shoreline and 182.27 kmē (70.37 sq mi) of land area. The island attracts
visitors and prospective residents with its mild climate and annual sunshine in excess of 2,000 hours. The population of the island was 9,279 as of the 2001 census.
Saltspring Island is home to the Crow's Nest Ecological Research Area, a 73 acre (30 ha) ecological preserve owned by Trinity Western University. The research area, used
for natural science study tours and research projects for students of the university, is also home to some of the few remaining Garry oak (Quercus garryana) meadows in
British Columbia. Those meadows and their associated ecosystems contain more plant species than any other terrestrial ecosystem in coastal B.C., as well as a multitude
of other creatures, including many species found nowhere else in Canada.
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