Vancouver Expedition
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The Vancouver Expedition was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy. The British expedition circumnavigated the globe and m
A likely portrait of George Vancouver, c. 1798, in the National Portrait Gallery, London
"Mount Rainier from the south Part of Admiralty Inlet". The mountain was first sighted by Vancouver during his exploration of Puget Sound in the spring of 1792.
The Discovery ran aground in early August 1792 on hidden rocks in Queen Charlotte Strait near Fife Sound. Within a day the Chatham (in the background at right) also ran aground on rocks about two miles away.
Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound. Volume I, plate VII from: "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World" by George Vancouver.
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
Vancouver Expedition
…changed when the adventurer John Meares reported that the Spanish had impounded his ship and seized hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of goods at Nootka Sound. Although it is now known that his claims of loss were somewhat exaggerated, Britain had recently waged war against Spain and seemed ready to resume…
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