Nootka Island (Spanish:isla de Nutca;French:île Nootka) is the largest island off the west coast ofVancouver Island inBritish Columbia, Canada.[1] It is 510 square kilometres (200 sq mi)[2] in area. It is separated from Vancouver Island byNootka Sound and its side-inlets, and is located within Electoral Area A of theStrathcona Regional District.
Europeans named the island after aNuu-chah-nulth language word meaning "go around, go around". They likely thought the natives were referring to the island itself. The Spanish and later English applied the word to the island and the sound, thinking they were naming both after the people.[3]
In the 1980s, theFirst Nations peoples in the region created the collectiveautonym ofNuu-chah-nulth, a term that means "along the outside (of Vancouver 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.).
| Climate data for Nootka (1981-2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.5 (65.3) | 16.5 (61.7) | 18.5 (65.3) | 23.0 (73.4) | 27.5 (81.5) | 30.0 (86.0) | 34.0 (93.2) | 34.0 (93.2) | 26.5 (79.7) | 22.5 (72.5) | 22.5 (72.5) | 18.0 (64.4) | 34.0 (93.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) | 8.2 (46.8) | 9.8 (49.6) | 11.9 (53.4) | 14.7 (58.5) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.1 (66.4) | 19.5 (67.1) | 17.7 (63.9) | 13.2 (55.8) | 9.0 (48.2) | 7.2 (45.0) | 12.9 (55.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 5.6 (42.1) | 5.9 (42.6) | 7.1 (44.8) | 8.8 (47.8) | 11.5 (52.7) | 13.7 (56.7) | 15.8 (60.4) | 16.3 (61.3) | 14.7 (58.5) | 10.8 (51.4) | 7.1 (44.8) | 5.4 (41.7) | 10.2 (50.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) | 3.5 (38.3) | 4.3 (39.7) | 5.7 (42.3) | 8.3 (46.9) | 10.6 (51.1) | 12.4 (54.3) | 13.0 (55.4) | 11.6 (52.9) | 8.4 (47.1) | 5.1 (41.2) | 3.5 (38.3) | 7.5 (45.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.5 (20.3) | −10.0 (14.0) | −3.0 (26.6) | 0.0 (32.0) | 1.0 (33.8) | 5.0 (41.0) | 6.0 (42.8) | 9.0 (48.2) | 5.0 (41.0) | −1.0 (30.2) | −7.0 (19.4) | −5.5 (22.1) | −10.0 (14.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 471.6 (18.57) | 325.4 (12.81) | 314.2 (12.37) | 264.6 (10.42) | 169.0 (6.65) | 147.3 (5.80) | 79.4 (3.13) | 99.4 (3.91) | 145.4 (5.72) | 355.5 (14.00) | 480.2 (18.91) | 427.7 (16.84) | 3,279.7 (129.12) |
| Source:Environment Canada[4] | |||||||||||||
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