Nootka Sound

American  

[noot-kuh saund, 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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Nootka Sound

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.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

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

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

It seems Captain Meares, with some other Englishmen at Macao, had concluded to erect a fort and settle a colony in Nootka Sound; from what authority we cannot say.

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss

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