Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park

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Coordinates: 55°07′N, 128°52′W

Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park (Nisga'a: Anhluut'ukwsim Laxmihl Angwinga'asankswhl Nisga'a) is a provincial park in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, about 80 kilometres north of Terrace.

The park was established by Order in Council on April 29, 1992, expanded in 1995 and included in the Nisga'a Treaty in 2000 and is the first park in the province to be jointly managed by the government and a First Nation. An interpretive centre in a traditional Nisga'a longhouse informs visitors about the Nisga'a legend that accounts for the lava as well as geological causes.

The park has waterfalls, pools, cinder cones, tree moulds, lava tubes, spatter cones, a lava-dammed lake, caves and other features created by lava flows. The parks aims to protect moose, goats, marmots, bears and many other species of wildlife.

The park covers 178.93 square kilometres in area.^[1]

Contents 1 Volcanic eruption 2 References 3 External links 4 See also

[edit] Volcanic eruption

It is believed to be the site of Canada's most recent volcanic eruption and lava flow, a geological disaster that killed an estimated 2,000 people.^[2]

The source of the eruption was the Tseax Cone. Large lava flows dammed the Nass River and destroyed two villages of the Nisga'a people around the years 1750 or 1775. Lava beds rise as much as 12 metres above the modern road.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park - BC Parks site
• Lukovich, Jeff. Lava bed bears witness to deadly eruption. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.

[edit] See also

• Nisga'a Lisims

Volcanic rock erupted from the Tseax Cone