Queen Charlotte Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in British Columbia off the W coast of Canada. 3,970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).

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Queen Charlotte Islands British  

plural noun

1. a group of about 150 islands off the W coast of Canada: part of British Columbia. Pop: about 6000 (latest est). Area: 9596 sq km (3705 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

In 2003, for instance, Chicago’s Field Museum repatriated 150 remains of Haida Gwaii ancestors stolen from burial sites in British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021

Literally “the islands of the Haida people,” Haida Gwaii is the native name Canada assigned in 2010 to the archipelago formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 9, 2018

Her paintings from Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands, are filled with vivid colors — tropical pinks, yellows and blues.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2013

Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1787 Portlock and Dixon had secured almost two thousand sea-otter skins as far north as the Queen Charlotte Islands.

From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)