Dionisio Alcalá Galiano
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Dionisio Alcalá Galiano was a Spanish Navy officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe and the Americas with unprecedented accuracy using new technology such as chronom
Retrato del brigadier de la Real Arada Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Anónimo
Jaime Alcalá Galiano, direct descendant of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, at the Galiano Is. memorial stone now located at the Galiano Museum site.
Almudena Alcalá-Galiano with local historian, Andrew Loveridge, at the Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano memorial.
Point Roberts, Washington
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Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of the US state of Washington on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,1
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano
…Channel into Padilla Bay, noting a village on the shore of Guemes Island. That evening they anchored in Bellingham Bay (Seno de Gaston). On 13 June, near Point Roberts, they encountered HMS Chatham, under William Robert Broughton, second in command of the British expedition of George Vancouver. They met Vancouver…
Point Roberts Marina Resort
The Point Roberts cannery c. 1918
Notice at the international boundary between Canada and the United States in Point Roberts
Boundary post in Point Roberts, Washington at the boundary between U.S. and Canada; photo taken at English Bluff Road, Delta facing Marine Drive, Point Roberts