Caamaño Passage

Caamaño Passage (54˚35'00" 131˚00'00" Between Dundas I and Zayas I, NW of Prince Rupert), Caamaño Sound (52˚54'00" 129˚15'00" Between Estevan Group and Aristazabal I, W side of Princess Royal I). Jacinto Caamaño, born at Madrid in 1759, was a Spanish naval officer, sent to Mexico in 1789 to join the San Blas naval dept. As cdr of the Princesa, he helped found Spain’s Nootka Sd settlement in 1790. Two years later he came N again as part of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra’s...

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