Adventure Cove

Adventure Cove (49˚12'00" 125˚51'00" E side of Lemmens Inlet, Meares I, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I), Adventure Point (49˚26'00" 126˚15'00" SW entrance to Holmes Inlet, NW of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd). Boston fur trader Robert Gray, capt of the Columbia Rediviva (first US ship to sail round the world), overwintered at Adventure Cove in 1791. He and his crew erected a defensive log structure they named Ft Defiance, refitted the Columbia and constructed the 40-tonne sloop Adventure (third...

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