Nootka Sound
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Nootka Sound is a sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically known as King George's Sound. It separates Vancouver Island and Nootka
Clouds over Nootka Sound
John Webber's A Native of King George's Sound, drawing published in a 1783 book about Captain James Cook
John Webber's The Launching of the North West America Ships of Meares at Nootka Sound in 1788
John Webber's Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, c. 1788
Nootka Convention
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The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which averted a war between the two countries over ov
Bodega y Quadra was the Spanish representative in the 1792 commission that met to implement the Nootka Bay Agreement, along with British officer and explorer George Vancouver
