The Columbia Purchase (Russian: Приобретение Колумбии, Priobreteniye Kolumbii) refers to the acquisition of the United Colony of Vancouver Island and Columbia by the Russian Empire from Great Britain in 1872. The British agreed to sell the region in fear of losing it in a future conflict with Russia, as well as growing costs to maintain the colonies. Russia purchased the region for a total of nine million dollars. The purchased land corresponds to the modern day Alaskan governorates of Columbia, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Vancouver Island; with the British also transferring their control of New Caledonia over to Russia (ending the joint administration of the region).