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

In British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Council of the Haida Nation said it was discouraging all non-resident travel to the islands “for the time being.”

From Reuters

The Haida Gwaii archipelago was colonised by the British in 1853, when it was renamed the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

From BBC

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

Her art took on inflections from her surroundings, wherever she spent time: Ireland, Mexico, Hawaii, or studying Haida dance and art in British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands.

From Seattle Times