Geographic Area
The Victoria Search and Rescue Region (SRR) comprises the land masses of British Columbia and Yukon, as well as a portion of the north-eastern Pacific ocean. It is approximately 490,000 square miles (1,300,000 km2) of mainly mountainous terrain, with another 275,000 square miles (710,000 km2) of ocean and 20,000 miles (32,000 km) of coastline. The oceanic area extends westward from the British Columbia coast approximately 900 miles (1,400 km) in the south and 350 miles (560 km) in the north.
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