Anvil Island British Columbia Map

About Anvil Island, British Columbia

Anvil Island is a locality in New Westminster Land District, British Columbia, Canada. It is classified as a town. Anvil Island is located at 49.5167°N, 123.3000°W.

Anvil Island rises from the salt-heavy waters of the Pacific coast as a singular, craggy silhouette, its steep slopes cloaked in the dense, evergreen verdure typical of the New Westminster Land District. It lies 22.7 km south-south-west of Squamish, BC (from Squamish, BC: bearing 207°T), and is situated 14.0 km south-south-west of Britannia Beach. The island stands in solitary contemplation near the distant Britannia Range, catching the fleeting, bruised purples of dusk that linger longer here than elsewhere, turning the surrounding tides into sheets of hammered lead. While the Capilano River flows toward the sea ten kilometers away, the air upon Anvil Island remains crisp and salt-stung, carrying the faint, cold memory of the Crescent Glacier twenty-nine kilometers distant. To the east, the rugged terrain keeps its own counsel, though the proximity of the wilderness toward Cypress Park—some fifteen kilometers away—imparts a sense of profound, undisturbed isolation to the island’s rocky shores. History lingers in the quietude of the island, where the remnants of past industry have long since surrendered to the persistent, aggressive reach of the forest. The local character is shaped by the interplay of water and wind, a condition reflected in the nearby presence of Phi Alpha Falls, which drops into the landscape six kilometers away, and the stillness of Deeks Lake, located six kilometers from the island’s edge. Anvil Island holds a storied past as a summer retreat, its economy shifting from early resource extraction to a modest, seasonal stewardship that respects the heavy, humid silence of the coast. Life here proceeds without the clamor of the mainland, governed instead by the slow, rhythmic shifting of the currents and the occasional, sharp cry of a gull circling above the tide line.

About This Anvil Island Map Page

Explore Anvil Island, British Columbia, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 49.516667, -123.3. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Anvil Island includes the postal code (V7W), telephone area code (236, 250, 604, 672, 778). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Anvil Island is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.