{{Short description|Island in Canada}} [[File:Carte baie Nootka.svg|thumb|306x306px|French map showing Nootka Island (Île Nootka) and [[Nootka Sound]] (Baie Nootka)]] {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} [[File:CCG IRB Station Nootka Lightstation.jpg|thumb|CCG IRB Station Nootka Lightstation on Nootka Island|236x236px]]
'''Nootka Island''' ({{langx|es|isla de Nutca}}; {{langx|fr|île Nootka}}) is the largest island off the west coast of [[Vancouver Island]] in [[British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/17007.html BC Namess/GeoBC entry "Nootka Island"]</ref> It is {{convert|510|km2|mi2}}<ref name="Canada">{{cite web|url=http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html |title=Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands |publisher=Atlas.nrcan.gc.ca |date=2009-08-12 |accessdate=2019-05-14| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122002132/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html | archivedate=2013-01-22}}</ref> in area. It is separated from Vancouver Island by [[Nootka Sound]] and its side-inlets, and is located within Electoral Area A of the [[Strathcona Regional District]].
Europeans named the island after a [[Nuu-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.<ref>[http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/17009.html BC Names/GeoBC entry "Nootka Sound"]</ref>
In the 1980s, the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] peoples in the region created the collective [[Endonym|autonym]] of ''Nuu-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==
{{Weather box |location = Nootka (1981-2010) |metric first = yes |single line = yes |Jan record high C = 18.5 |Feb record high C = 16.5 |Mar record high C = 18.5 |Apr record high C = 23.0 |May record high C = 27.5 |Jun record high C = 30.0 |Jul record high C = 34.0 |Aug record high C = 34.0 |Sep record high C = 26.5 |Oct record high C = 22.5 |Nov record high C = 22.5 |Dec record high C = 18.0 |year record high C = 34.0
|Jan high C = 7.4 |Feb high C = 8.2 |Mar high C = 9.8 |Apr high C = 11.9 |May high C = 14.7 |Jun high C = 16.9 |Jul high C = 19.1 |Aug high C = 19.5 |Sep high C = 17.7 |Oct high C = 13.2 |Nov high C = 9.0 |Dec high C = 7.2 |year high C = 12.9
|Jan mean C = 5.6 |Feb mean C = 5.9 |Mar mean C = 7.1 |Apr mean C = 8.8 |May mean C = 11.5 |Jun mean C = 13.7 |Jul mean C = 15.8 |Aug mean C = 16.3 |Sep mean C = 14.7 |Oct mean C = 10.8 |Nov mean C = 7.1 |Dec mean C = 5.4 |year mean C = 10.2
|Jan low C = 3.7 |Feb low C = 3.5 |Mar low C = 4.3 |Apr low C = 5.7 |May low C = 8.3 |Jun low C = 10.6 |Jul low C = 12.4 |Aug low C = 13.0 |Sep low C = 11.6 |Oct low C = 8.4 |Nov low C = 5.1 |Dec low C = 3.5 |year low C = 7.5
|Jan record low C = -6.5 |Feb record low C = -10.0 |Mar record low C = -3.0 |Apr record low C = 0.0 |May record low C = 1.0 |Jun record low C = 5.0 |Jul record low C = 6.0 |Aug record low C = 9.0 |Sep record low C = 5.0 |Oct record low C = -1.0 |Nov record low C = -7.0 |Dec record low C = -5.5 |year record low C = -10.0
|precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 471.6 |Feb precipitation mm = 325.4 |Mar precipitation mm = 314.2 |Apr precipitation mm = 264.6 |May precipitation mm = 169.0 |Jun precipitation mm = 147.3 |Jul precipitation mm = 79.4 |Aug precipitation mm = 99.4 |Sep precipitation mm = 145.4 |Oct precipitation mm = 355.5 |Nov precipitation mm = 480.2 |Dec precipitation mm = 427.7 |year precipitation mm = 3279.7 |source 1 = [[Environment Canada]]<ref name= "climate">[[Environment Canada]] — [http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=nootka&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=261&dispBack=1], accessed 10 October 2017</ref> |date=October 2017 }}
==See also== *[[Nootka Crisis]] *[[Nootka Convention]] *[[Nootka Fault]], a local geologic [[Fault (geology)|fault]]. *[[Fort San Miguel]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Islands of British Columbia]] [[Category:Nootka Sound region]]
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