Nootka Sound

[noot-kuh sound, noot-]

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.

Example Sentences

The Indigenous-led Salmon Parks conservation proposal received a commitment for $15.2 million in funding from the federal government to buy out forestry licenses and stop old-growth logging in selected watersheds around Nootka Sound.

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Clear-cut logging, low river flows, overfishing and a warming climate have put the salmon in Nootka Sound at risk.

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Yuquot — or Friendly Cove, as the newcomers called it — on Nootka Sound, where Captain James Cook in 1778 dropped anchor and began trading with the First People of this place.

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“Nobody was going to tell us to move. I love living along the ocean,” he said, settling into his chair by a window that looks out to Nootka Sound, during an interview just months before he died at 80.

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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.

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