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Somewhat related — a recent short video about Puget Sound: https://youtu.be/EJrrRPHa6-c https://youtu.be/EJrrRPHa6-c

• brudgers 8y ago
  At 2:41 the video shows what is probably Vancouver's map labeling the straight "supposed Straight of Juan de Fuca." What I find interesting is that Vancouver's exploration was 200 years after Juan de Fuca reported being there...about as much time had passed between Juan de Fuca and Vancouver as has passed between Vancouver and us. Even more strikingly (at least to me) is that at the time of Vancouver's expedition, clear determination that California was not an island by Juan Bautista de Anza [1] was about as recent as the founding of Google is to us...and a person was still likely to have a map showing that it was. [2] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza [2]: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island/feature/history https://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island/featur...