Sgang Gwaay Anthony Island

About this spectacle

Sgang Gwaay, also known as Anthony Island, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the southern tip of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Visitors arrive by boat to find the remains of a Haida village, SGang Gwaay Llnagaay, where weathered totem poles and mortuary poles rise from dense rainforest along a sheltered cove. The carvings, worn silver-grey by decades of Pacific rain and moss, stand as some of the most intact examples of Haida monumental art in the world. The silence is profound — broken only by the cry of seabirds, the lap of water, and wind through old-growth Sitka spruce. No interpretive infrastructure crowds the site; the atmosphere is one of raw, unmediated encounter with a living cultural landscape slowly being reclaimed by the forest. The surrounding waters teem with wildlife, and the journey by boat through the island-studded waters of the Gwaii Haanas archipelago is itself a remarkable experience.

When to go

May — Sep, peak Jun — Aug

Getting there

Nearest airport: ZST. Nearest city: Queen Charlotte.

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