| 词条 | Hecate Strait |
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DefinitionAccording to the BCGNIS, the southern boundary of Hecate Strait is defined as a line running from the southernmost point of Price Island to Cape St James on Kunghit Island, the southernmost point of Haida Gwaii. The northern boundary is a line from Rose Point, the northeastern tip of Graham Island, to Hooper Point at the north end of Stephens Island off the mainland.[2] HistoryHecate Strait, because it is so shallow, is especially susceptible to storms and violent weather. The Haida crossed the Hecate Strait to the mainland to plunder coastal villages to take slaves and booty. Only the Haida knew the real nature of the Strait's workings, and so could not be followed by the tribes of the mainland. Hecate Strait, therefore, was one of the main defenses of the Haida people from attack.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}[5] Hecate Strait was named by Captain George Henry Richards in 1861 or 1862 after his surveying vessel, HMS Hecate.[2] GeologyDuring the last Ice Age, the seafloor in this area was a wide coastal plain stretching south to the Olympic Peninsula and including what is now Queen Charlotte Sound.[4] Flora and faunaThe strait once contained strong salmon and halibut fisheries. Hecate Strait is one of the few locations in the world with species from the Glass Sponge class of fauna. Regions with these sponge are currently protected from damage by commercial fishing.[5] The Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs Marine Protected Area was designated by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada in February 2017. The MPA is located in the Northern Shelf bioregion of the Pacific Region, southeast of Haida Gwaii, North and South of the entrance to the Douglas Channel. The MPA is composed of three individual areas known as the Northern Reef, the Central Reefs, and the Southern Reef. Together these three areas cover approximately 2,410 square kilometers[6]. The four reef complexes in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound discontinuously cover an area of about 1,000 km2, and are located in glacial troughs between 140 m and 240 m deep. References1. ^{{Citation | last= Skidegate Haida Immersion Program | title=A Pocket Guide to the Skidegate Haida Language | edition =forthcoming }} {{coord|53|11|N|130|50|W|scale:2250000|display=title}}2. ^1 2 {{Cite bcgnis|id=38500 |title=Hecate Strait}} 3. ^Hecate Strait {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606231824/http://www.bartleby.com/69/11/H02311.html |date=2008-06-06 }}, Columbia Gazetteer of North America 4. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/haida/happr01e.shtml |title=During the end of the last ice age between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, events resulted in very low water levels around Haida Gwaii. What is now Hecate Strait, the body of water that separates Haida Gwaii from the mainland, was for the most part dry land. Throughout this area of dry land, there were lakes and small rivers draining north and south to the Pacific Ocean. Soil samples from Hecate Strait indicate that many areas were habitable in the last ice age. After 10,000 years ago, the melting glaciers contributed to a rise in the sea level that resulted in a flooding of the Northwest Coast, temporarily creating beach lines high above today's high tide marks. |work=Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation }} 5. ^Glass Sponge Reefs Living Oceans Society 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/mpa-zpm/hecate-eng.html|title=Fisheries and Oceans Canada|website=www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-11-22}} 2 : Straits of British Columbia|North Coast of British Columbia |
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