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2 unusual facts about Nootka Island


Christine Selinger

Christine Selinger is also an adventure enthusiast who became the first paraplegic to traverse the Nootka Trail (located on Nootka Island in British Columbia, Canada) in May 2010.

Nootka Island

An older term for this group of peoples was "Aht", which means "people" in their language and is a component in all the names of their subgroups, and of some locations (e.g. Yuquot, Mowachaht, Kyuquot, Opitsaht etc.).


Comox-Strathcona Regional District

The Vancouver Island part of the Comox Strathcona Regional District stretches all the way across the island from east to west, and north to south between Sayward and the Denman and Hornby Islands on its east coast, and between Nootka Island and the Brooks Peninsula on its west coast, including most of Strathcona Provincial Park.


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