Savary Island is an island located in British Columbia. Located in the northern part of the Strait of Georgia, and has a permanent population of 100. In the summer, exceeding the number of the population in some cases 2,000.
The island consists mostly of unconsolidated materials such as ice, marine mud, and sand. This comes primarily from the Pleistocene era as deposited by streams of melt water from glaciers that advanced southward across the Strait of Georgia for more than 20,000 years. And topped with ice age materials before the Holocene, including characteristics of the dunes. Most of the soil is sandy.
Since the era of melting ice, and continued to corrosion under the influence of prevailing in the south, and causing the disappearance of large parts of the "original island." What remains today in the erosion and accumulation gradually move on the borders of the island. As shown from one study that "with the lack of external sources of sediment, will continue to be the disintegration of the coast of the South Island."
Savary receives between 950 and 1,300 mm of rainfall annually, with extreme exaggeration in the late fall and until mid-winter. There are no permanent streams in the island, but can be found in the spring and at least one who is called the middle of the island of Indian Springs.