One of Victoria's best loved parks, and its largest
coastal wilderness area, Wilsons Promontory (locally known as «The Prom») is a 50,000 hectare (124,000 acre) reserve.
Journey to the tip of the Dampier Peninsular to experience the remote
coastal wilderness area of Cape Leveque and local Aboriginal communities en route.
Not exact matches
Metro Vancouver Regional District's
area of operation encompasses 3,249.1 square kilometres of urban, rural,
coastal and
wilderness regions in British Columbia.
The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as
wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002
area — the 1.5 million acres of
coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.
Cape Scott Provincial Park is a truly magnificent
area of rugged
coastal wilderness that is located at the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island, 563 kilometres from Victoria.
Day trips can take you to the spectacular redwood groves on the Avenue of the Giants, the intriguing Lost Coast, the
coastal community of Shelter Cove, and the secluded King Range National Conservation
Area and Sinkyone
Wilderness.
The natural ingredients are all here: fishing, hiking, world - class scuba diving, and serious quantities of wildlife in
coastal waters,
wilderness parks and the
area's nicely mature second - growth woodland habitat make for great viewing.
The Service will soon decide whether to designate a huge chunk of the
coastal plain as a «
Wilderness Area» that would be permanently protected from oil drilling.