San Miguel Islands

San Miguel Islands (49˚35'00" 126˚37'00" E of Yuquot Point, off SE Nootka I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Estéban Martínez, Spanish cdr at Nootka in 1789, gave the name San Miguel to the fortifications that he immediately began to build on the islands bordering the S side of Friendly Cove. His journal for May 15 reads: “Observing that the best situation for the defense of this port is the point to the NE which forms the entrance, I gave orders to begin to place an embankment on the...

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