Nootka Sound

American  

[noot-kuh sound, noot-] / ˈnut kə ˈsaʊnd, ˈnʊt- /

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific Ocean within British Columbia, Canada, separating Nootka Island and Vancouver Island: briefly known as King George’s Sound, as named by explorer James Cook in 1778.

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Example Sentences

On Sept. 29, after the volatile summer, the fort was abandoned, and the Spanish returned to their home port at Vancouver Island’s Nootka Sound, never to return.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

A second theory holds that Spanish explorers could have brought the disease during their journeys to Nootka Sound on the west side of Vancouver Island in the late 1770s.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2021

This aspect of the story is loosely based on real history, and the Nootka Sound that Delaney owns is a real place on Vancouver Island.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2017

There, Jonathan Pryce, as the company’s chairman, presides in highly entertaining fashion over the gargoylish protectors of multinational privilege who want to get their hands on Nootka Sound, preferably over Delaney’s dead body.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2017

Russia had acknowledged it in 1790, as the State Papers of the Nootka Sound controversy would show.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers