Santa Cruz de Nuca Mountain

Santa Cruz de Nuca Mountain (49˚40'55" 126˚40'31" SE side of Nootka I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Puerto de la Santa Cruz was the original name given by the Spanish to Friendly Cove. (Santa Cruz de Nuca also appears on Spanish charts from this era.) PNW cartography expert Henry Wagner suggests that it was probably bestowed by Estéban Martínez, the Spanish cdr at Nootka, in 1789, because he arrived there that year on May 5, just after the traditional Holy Cross feast day of May 3. In...

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