Above is Mount Colonal Foster in Strathcona Park. Third highest on the island. Strathcona was the first Provincial Park in BC, has the 3 highest mountains on the island, and has the island's only icefield, the Comox Glacier.
Henderson Lake, near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, is the wettest place in North America. Prince Rupert, the wettest city, gets 2,500mm of annual precip. That's pretty wet too, but Henderson lake gets an average of 6,655mm annually and set the record at 8,997mmm in 1997. That'd be like 2.5cm of rain everyday.
FYI, Vancouver Island is about 8 times smaller than New Zealand (North & South Islands combined) and about a fifth the size of Nepal. The average distance from coast to coast is 50km and the island as a whole is 460km long (longer than the distance from Golden to Kamloops. It's got the highest waterfall in Canada (unless those falls I was talking about the other day are real at 600m) and the tenth highest in the world - Della Falls at 440m high, divided into 3 cascades.
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