Narvaez Bay


Narvaez Bay (48˚46'00" 123˚06'00" E end of Saturna I, NW of Monarch Head, Gulf Is), Narvaez Island (49˚38'00" 126˚35'00" One of the Spanish Pilot Group, SW of Bligh I, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Spanish naval officer José Maria Narváez (1768–1840), born at Cadiz, Spain, was sent out to Havana in 1784 and spent three years working in the Caribbean before being assigned to San Blas naval base in Mexico. He accompanied Estéban Martínez and Gonzales López de Haro on their 1788...

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