Favada Point

Favada Point (49˚44'00" 124˚38'00" W end of Texada I, Str of Georgia). There is confusion over the early naming of Lasqueti I and Texada I (qv). Spanish naval officer José Narváez was the first European to explore and chart the Str of Georgia, in 1791. According to Henry Wagner, an expert on the early cartography of the PNW, the chart prepared by Francisco Eliza, Narváez’s superior—which Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano showed to Capt George Vancouver in 1792—labelled Isla de Texada in an...

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