Alberni Inlet

Alberni Inlet (49˚05'00" 124˚49'00" Extends NE from head of Barkley Sd, Vancouver I), Port Alberni (49˚14'30" 124˚48'00" Head of Alberni Inlet). Pedro de Alberni (1747–1802), an infantry capt in the Spanish army, was in command of a squadron of 76 soldiers attached to Lt Francisco Eliza’s 1790 expedition to the BC coast. Eliza and Alberni reoccupied the Spanish base at Nootka that Estéban Martínez had abandoned the year before and re-established Spanish authority in the region; Eliza...

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