Ensanada Islet


Ensanada Islet (49˚47'00" 126˚58'00" N entrance to Nuchatlitz Inlet, off NW Nootka I, W side of Vancouver I). Ensenada de Ferrer (Ferrer’s Inlet) appears on the chart Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano and Cayetano Valdés produced after their historic 1792 circumnavigation of Vancouver I. It presumably refers to what is today known as Nuchatlitz Inlet. In recognition of this older name, the S entrance to the inlet was designated Ferrer Point (qv) about 1860. The islet on the opposite side of...

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