Fraser Lowland

Fraser Lowland
Fraser Lowland
Landsat image of the Fraser Lowland, which stretches from Chilliwack in the northeast to the Strait of Georgia in the southwest. Sediment deposited by the Fraser River is clearly visible.
	Fraser Lowland
	Coordinates: 49°2′N 122°34′W / 49.033°N 122.567°W
Location	British Columbia, Canada; Washington, United States
Part of	Georgia Depression

The Fraser Lowland is a

Washington. The region includes much of the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, and the coastal plains of Washington's Whatcom County. As a physiographic region, the Fraser Lowland is part of the Georgia Depression, which in turn is part of the Coastal Trough.^[1]^[2]

The eponymous

river system

.

However, the region also includes the lower Nooksack River basin ("Nooksack Lowland") south of the Canada–US border, which belongs to a completely separate river system arising from the southeast in the namesaked valleys around the North Cascades' Mount Shuksan, Baker and Twin Sisters.

Overall, the Fraser Lowland encompasses all the fertile low-lying

fluvial plains between and around the Fraser and Nooksack rivers,^[3] including the Sumas Prairie, the Burrard Peninsula, and sometimes also the North Shore lowlands around the Burrard Inlet

.

The American

Point Roberts lies to the region's west, at the southern end of the Tsawwassen peninsula

.

Geography

The Fraser Lowland is roughly triangular and about 3,500 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi) in total area. The

farmland

.

The Fraser Lowland is politically divided by the Canada–United States border into two parts. Both the area and population are much larger on the Canadian side (Fraser Valley and Sumas Prairie) with about 2.4 million residents.

Chilliwack, both part of the Fraser Valley Regional District.^[4]

The population on the American side of the Lowland (the Nooksack Lowland and all the upper Sumas River basin south of Sumas) is about 200,000. It is dominated by the coastal city of Bellingham at the Lowland's southernmost tip.^[4]

References

^ Landforms of British Columbia: A Physiographic Outline, by S. Holland 1964 (revised 1976), British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Archived 2005-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Landforms of British Columbia: A Physiographic Outline- Physiographic map, by S. Holland 1964 (revised 1976), British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
^ Fraser Lowland Map Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, University of the Fraser Valley
^ ^a ^b ^c Imagining the Future of Cross Border Environmental Resource Management within the Fraser Lowland Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, University of the Fraser Valley

[bull-1] Landforms of British Columbia: A Physiographic Outline, by S. Holland 1964 (revised 1976), British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Archived 2005-05-09 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Landforms of British Columbia: A Physiographic Outline- Physiographic map, by S. Holland 1964 (revised 1976), British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2010-11-20.

[3] Fraser Lowland Map Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, University of the Fraser Valley

[borderlands-4] Imagining the Future of Cross Border Environmental Resource Management within the Fraser Lowland Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, University of the Fraser Valley

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Geography

See also

References