Flora Bank

Flora Bank
Looking southward over the Flora Bank
Flora Bank
Coordinates54°11′N 130°18′W / 54.183°N 130.300°W / 54.183; -130.300
Max. length2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi)
Max. width1.7 kilometres (1.1 mi)
Surface area4 km2 (1.5 sq mi)

Flora Bank is a bank in British Columbia, Canada, located at the edge of Chatham Sound, between Lelu and Kitson Islands at the north entrance to Inverness Passage, south of Prince Rupert. Flora Bank is a is wide, flat, and very shallow feature, mostly at or just below sea level, because of the large tidal range in the area, it may be exposed at low tides.

The bank was named after Miss Flora MacDonald, daughter of the manager of Inverness Cannery.

The bank is associated wit the nearby Agnew Bank, which extends and diversifies Flora Bank's vegetated (seagrass meadow) ecosystem with non-vegetated (soft sediment) habitats.

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