Salish Sea Bioregion Land

Mainland and islands within the Salish Sea Bioregion with a database of island names, small island chain names, and larger archipelago names. Island names were derived from the British Columbia Freshwater Atlas or transcribed from Google Maps. Where no name could be find, the name field was left blank. Coastlines were defined using the Washington ShoreZone Shoreline and British Columbia Freshwater Atlas shoreline. ShoreZone was given precedence where the datasets overlapped. ShoreZone gaps like river mouths were bridged with a straight line. Shoreline line features were converted to polygons. Multipart polygons were split and inland islands were removed. The entire dataset was clipped to the Salish Sea Bioregion boundary.