Main Whale Rubbing Beach

People on a beach, possibly at Robson Bight (the mouth of Tsitika river to Johnstone Strait). Robson Bight is a small Vancouver Island bay at the west end of Johnstone Strait in British Columbia that includes a protected killer whale habitat famous for its whale-rubbing beaches. The bight is adjacent to Lower Tsitika River Provincial Park.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Marine ecology
• Beaches
• Marine biology
• Whales
• Islands
• Whales--Behavior
• Habitat conservation
• Wildlife refuges

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_194; Cowan_PN_773; Cowan Colour Slides - Species and Locations - Box 14

Date created

• July 1990

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 slide : colour

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve

Coordinates

• 50.4833, -126.5833

Additional physical characteristics

• The Nature Trust (TNT) of British Columbia. One black binder with ten pages of slides.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• photographs
• color photographs
• slides (photographs)
• color slides

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/axvd-y085

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