Hurtado Point

Hurtado Point (49˚58'00" 124˚45'00" On E side of Str of Georgia, opposite Savary I, NW of Powell R). Mariner and historian John Walbran claimed that the source of this name was Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, sent by Hernán Cortés to explore the Pacific coast of New Spain N of Mexico. Hurtado set off with two vessels in 1532, but the voyage ended with his death, either by mutiny or at the hands of California’s aboriginal inhabitants. However, on a Spanish chart engraved in 1795, based on...

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