Sombrio Point

Sombrio Point (48˚29'00" 124˚17'00" SE of Port San Juan, N side of Juan de Fuca Str, SW end of Vancouver I). Named by the hydrographic service in 1934 after the Sombrio R, which enters Juan de Fuca Str just NW of this point. The Rio Sombrio, or “shady river” in Spanish, was in turn named by one of the early Spanish naval officers in the area—either Manuel Quimper, who made the first European survey of Juan de Fuca Str in 1790 with the Princesa Real (the captured British fur-trading...

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