Nodales Channel


Nodales Channel (50˚24'00" 125˚20'00" Between E Thurlow I and Sonora I, N of Campbell R). Spanish explorers Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano and Cayetano Valdés anchored at the N entrance to this passage in July 1792. Secundino Salamanca, 1st lt of the Sutil, was sent ahead to Loughborough Inlet with the ship’s boat. En route he investigated Cordero Channel and Phillips Arm, which Alcalá-Galiano called Canal de Engaño, after the Spanish word for deception or hoax (Phillips Arm is a dead end)....

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