Desolation Sound

Desolation Sound (50˚07'00" 124˚47'00" E of Cortes I, at NE end of Str of Georgia). Capt George Vancouver anchored at nearby Teakerne Arm for three weeks in June and July 1792 and sent his boats out to survey the region. His mood could only be described as depressed. “Our situation here,” he wrote, presented “as gloomy and dismal an aspect as nature could well be supposed to exhibit.” Had it not been for the “agreeable society” of the Spanish explorers Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano and...

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