In a message dated 4/17/2002 5:49:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au writes: > Nick: I have an opposite feeling. Bligh and Vancouver were with Cook's last > voyage in 1778 looking for the NW passage, earlier claimed to have been > found by Wunda Fuca. But Bligh was elsewhere during Vancouver's 1791 > voyage. Bligh and Vancouver were on the 3rd Cook voyage, 1776-79. It explored some of the Northwest coast. I don't know if Bligh Reef, Valdez, AK was named for him then or not until Vancouver's voyage in 1792 but as sailing master he must have irked someone on the trip if that desultory undersea rock was all he got out of it. That is the rock that nipped ol' Hazelwoods single wall tanker a couple hundred years later. Rob G *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 20:25:34 PDT
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