Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (formerly the Bamfield Marine Station) is a marine

Marine (ocean)

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 research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, British Columbia

Bamfield, British Columbia

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 and run by the University of Victoria

University of Victoria

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, the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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, Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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, the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

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 and the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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. The Centre hosts numerous public education programs in marine related science.

The centre is housed in the original building used as the western terminus of the British Empire's worldwide undersea cable called the All Red Line

All Red Line

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. Originally the site of the Pacific Cable Board (PCB) Cable Station, which served as the eastern terminus of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable linking Canada

Canada

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 to Fanning Island

Tabuaeran

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 (1,600 kilometres south of Hawaii

Hawaii

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). The telegraph cable operated from 1901 to 1959.