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Charles William Barkley

He rediscovered the strait allegedly described by Juan de Fuca and named the strait as such on his chart.

Fuca

Juan de Fuca (1536 - 1602), a Greek maritime pilot in the service of the Spanish king Philip II

Juan de Fuca

Having sailed north with a caravel and a pinnace and a few armed marines, he returned to Acapulco and claimed to have found the strait, with a large island at its mouth, at around 47° north latitude.

Wakashan languages

Wakashan is a family of languages spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, and in the northwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Juan de Fuca was probably the first European to meet Wakashan-speaking peoples, and Juan Perez visited the Nuu-chah-nulth people in 1774.

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British Columbia Highway 14

An east-west highway on the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island in the Capital Regional District, it is sometimes known as the Juan de Fuca Highway, as well as Sooke Road, Sooke being one of the largest communities that the highway passes through.

Port Discovery

Port Discovery, Washington – George Vancouver's landing point on the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Strait of Juan de Fuca

Some scenes from the movie The Hunt for Red October were filmed in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1989.

In October 2009, the Washington state Board of Geographic Names approved the Salish Sea toponym, not to replace the names of the Strait of Georgia, Puget Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca, but instead as a collective term for all three.