The Burrard Peninsula (left to right across upper middle of photo) sits north of the Fraser River, shown here.
South Vancouver (foreground), with downtown at the top, all part of the Burrard Peninsula, with Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains in the background.
Map of the Burrard Peninsula and Greater Vancouver region
Neither mountainous nor completely flat, the Burrard Peninsula has been extensively urbanized, and includes the largest and densest populations in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and in British Columbia more generally.
While originally extensively forested, since the mid_1800s the Burrard Peninsula has become essentially one large cityscape. Its largest remaining green spaces include Pacific Spirit Regional Park in Point Grey, Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver, and several large parks in Burnaby, such as Burnaby Mountain, which also houses Simon Fraser University.
The BurrardPeninsula in extreme southwestern British Columbia sits between the fjord of Burrard Inlet and the Coast Mountains in the north and the Fraser River and its alluvial plain in the south.
Its isthmus is the lowland around Coquitlam Centre, between the head of Burrard Inlet at Port Moody and the Coquitlam River, a tributary of the Fraser.
From west to east, it comprises the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, the Como Lake-Burquitlam-Maillardville plateau of Coquitlam, and Port Moody at the end of Burrard Inlet.
Burrard Inlet is a relatively shallow-sided coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia.
Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the low-lying BurrardPeninsula (to the south) from the slopes of the North Shore Mountains, home to the communities of West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver.
Freighters waiting to load or discharge cargoes in the inlet often anchor in English Bay, which lies south of the mouth of the inlet and is separated from it by Vancouver's downtown peninsula and Stanley Park.
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