Fidalgo Passage

Fidalgo Passage (49˚39'00" 126˚34'00" W of Bligh I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Spanish naval officer Salvador Fidalgo (1757–1803), in command of the San Carlos, sailed north from Mexico in 1790 with Francisco Eliza, in the Concepción, to reoccupy Nootka Sd. Eliza, accompanied by Capt Pedro Alberni and a party of soldiers, fortified the Spanish settlement at Nootka that summer, while Fidalgo was ordered N to explore the coast of Alaska. He also travelled to Nootka in 1792, with the...

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