Ten interesting facts about Northern BC: 

1. Prince Rupert’s harbour is the third-deepest natural harbour in the world, behind just Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sydney, Australia.
2. Canada’s smallest official railway is the 2km Fort George Railway in Prince George.
3. BC’s highest point is Fairweather Mountain, at 4,633 metres (15,196 feet), on the BC/Alaska border in the Coast Mountains.
4. Prince Rupert has the highest average annual precipitation of any city in Canada – 2,552mm (8.5 feet).
5. In Northern BC, excluding Prince George, there is an average of 1.8 people per sq. km., making it one of the least densely populated areas in the world south of the 60th parallel.
6. The world’s largest unlogged coastal temperate rainforest is the 4,050 square kilometre (1,620 square mile) Kitlope Valley, now a heritage conservancy.
7. Langara Island, on the northern Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), holds BC’s record for soggy weather – 300 wet days in 1939.
8. The Peace Reach Arm of Williston Lake is the only watershed that crosses the Rocky- 
    Mountains from west to east.
9. BC’s windiest place is Cape St. James, at the southern tip of Haida Gwaii. The wind blows there 99 per cent of the time. On average, a gale gusts through Cape St. James every three days.
10. The longest continuously occupied non-native settlement in BC is McLeod Lake, established in 1805.