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Salish Seas

This is my home and it is one of the most beautiful places on earth (I might be a little bit biased though).

A repaint of SoftwareSimian's fantastic Vancouver Island Map. I did this one for myself in May 2020, but I uploaded it now for the sake of it.

This is prime shipping territory, and for many residents of this area ferries are a fact of life, with it's long, deep inlets and mountainous terrain.
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Vancouver Island is in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is 456 km (283 mi) in length, 100 km (62 mi) in width at its widest point, and 32,134 km2 (12,407 sq mi) in area. It is the largest island on the west coasts of the Americas.

Vancouver Island has been the homeland to many peoples for thousands of years. The groupings, by language, are the Kwakwakaʼwakw (also known as the Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth, and Coast Salish peoples. While there is some overlap, Kwakwakaʼwakw territory includes northern and northwestern Vancouver Island and adjoining areas of the mainland, the Nuu-chah-nulth span most of the west coast, while the Coast Salish cover the southeastern Island and southernmost extremities along the Salish Sea. Their cultures are connected to the natural resources abundant in the area.

The southern part of Vancouver Island and some of the nearby Gulf Islands are the only parts of British Columbia or Western Canada to lie south of the 49th parallel. This area has one of the warmest climates in Canada, and since the mid-1990s has been mild enough in a few areas to grow Mediterranean crops such as olives and lemons.

The population of Vancouver Island was 870,297 as of 2019. Nearly half of that population (401,700) live in the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay, and Campbell River.

Indigenous peoples had inhabited Vancouver Island for thousands of years, long before the arrival of Spanish and British naval expeditions in the late 18th century. The Spanish and British conjointly named it Quadra and Vancouver Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held in 1792 between the Spanish commander of Fort San Miguel in Nootka Sound, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British naval captain George Vancouver, during the Nootka Crisis. (Bodega y Quadra's name was eventually dropped.) It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, who between 1791 and 1794 explored the Pacific Northwest coast.

Vancouver Island is the world's 43rd largest island, Canada's 11th largest island, and Canada's second most populous island after the Island of Montreal. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island*

Map created with base game assets only.

Very Large 1:3
Created with intel i7, Nvidia RTX 2080, 32gb ram.
Looks fantastic with "Morning Light" mod & expanded render distance. If your machine can handle it. I tried to keep the trees thick enough to be convincing while not blowing up your GPU.