Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area, and Haida Heritage Site, commonly called Gwaii Haanas, lies in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii, an archipelago about 130 kilometres off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It protects an archipelago of 138 islands, the largest being Moresby Island and the southernmost Kunghit Island. The name means Islands of Beauty in the Haida language, and the site is jointly managed with the Haida people, whose oral histories and pollen evidence place human presence on the islands back thousands of years. It was first protected as South Moresby National Park Reserve in 1988 and formally established under cooperative management as Gwaii Haanas in 1993.
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