Nootka Island

Nootka Island
	Ships from Meares off Nootka Island
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Geographical location	49 ° 44 ′ N , 126 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ N , 126 ° 46 ′ W
surface	510 km²

Nootka Island is an island on the west coast of Vancouver Island , in British Columbia (Western Canada ), with an area of 510 km² and a circumference of 187 km. It is separated from Vancouver Island by Nootka Sound .

The island's name comes from the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) indigenous people on Vancouver Island .

It is not certain who was the first European to discover the island. Both James Cook and before him Juan José Pérez Hernández sailed the coasts of the area. The British navigator John Meares is believed to be the first European to set foot on the island in 1788 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ The Atlas of Canada. Sea Islands. Natural Resources Canada, archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 .
^ Andrew Scott: The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia . Harbor Publishing, Madeira Park, BC 2009, ISBN 978-1-55017-484-7 , pp. 429-430 (English).

[1] The Atlas of Canada. Sea Islands. Natural Resources Canada, archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; accessed on September 28, 2015 .

[2] Andrew Scott: The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia . Harbor Publishing, Madeira Park, BC 2009, ISBN 978-1-55017-484-7 , pp. 429-430 (English).