Juan de Fuca Strait

Juan de Fuca Strait (48˚15'00" 124˚00'00" Between Vancouver I and Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula). The Greek master mariner Apostolos Valerianos, born at Kefalonia about 1536, worked as a pilot for Spain for 40 years and was known as Juan de Fuca. In 1596 he reportedly met an English trader named Michael Lok in Venice and told him about a voyage made four years earlier up the W coast of N America. De Fuca told Lok that the Mexican viceroy had sent him, with two small ships, to search...

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