Princesa Channel

Princesa Channel (49˚43'00" 126˚38'00" E of Nootka I, N of Strange I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). The Spanish naval frigate Princesa (often spelled Princesca) was built at San Blas, Mexico, in 1777 and participated in a number of historic voyages on the Pacific coast of N America. Ignacio de Arteaga took the vessel to Alaska in 1779, accompanied by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in the Favorita, in an attempt to discover the NW Passage before Capt James Cook should find it. In...

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