Jordan River

Jordan River (48˚25'00" 124˚03'00" Flows SW into Juan de Fuca Str, W of Sooke Inlet, SW end of Vancouver I). Spanish naval officer Manuel Quimper, in the Princesa Real (the former British trading vessel Princess Royal, seized at Nootka Sd in 1789 by Estéban Martínez), explored this coastline in 1790. He called this feature Rio Hermoso in his diary, and its current name first appears on a map made by Gonzales López de Haro later in 1790. It most likely refers to Alejandro Jordán, a...

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