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- Ice Age. Fifteen thousand years ago the landscape that was to become the future location of the university was crushed under a thick mass of glacial ice. As the ice melted and slowly receded south into Puget Sound, its immense load of rocks grooved, polished and scratched the bedrock at its base. Ken Josephson. Cartographer. During glacial periods, the most recent of which lasted until 11,000 years ago, the Victoria region was covered by a sheet of ice nearly one mile deep (1100 to 1500 meters). Elevation. These masses of ice scoured and rounded hilltops and ridges and, through their great weight, depressed coastal lands below present sea level. The southern end of Vancouver Island was some 85 metres (275 feet) lower than present level when ice from the last glacial advances started to melt some 15,000 years ago. Ken Josephson. Cartographer. Approximately 11,500 years ago the land at sea level stabilised around the present shoreline. The area became habitable for those species of plants and animals who could adapt to the cold.
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