Admiralty Inlet
This strait is the transition between eastern
Juan de Fuca Strait and
Puget Sound. During
Quimper’s expedition of 1790, Juan Carrasco, a pilot, sighted the entrance to the strait,
but mistook it for a bay, which he named Ensenada de Caamaño, after Spanish naval
officer Jacinto Caamaño.
1Quimper may have mistook the inlet as an ending, despite advice to the contrary from local
Indigenous people.
2 Though he took this information as false,
Vancouver did not; two years later, Quimper sighted and named it Admiralty Inlet.
3
- 1. Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver: Cavendish Books, 1999), 70.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.