Nootka

The term Nootka refers to:

Ethnologisch

• Nuu- chah- nulth or Nootka Indians ( outdated foreign name) the west coast of North America
• Nuchatlaht to the Nuu- chah- nulth belonging Indians on Vancouver Island
• Mowachaht - Muchalaht to the Nuu- chah- nulth belonging Indians on Vancouver Island
• Maquinna ( Maquilla, rarely Muquinna ), name of a number of Nuu- chah- nulth chiefs

Geographically

• Nootka Iceland, an island off Vancouver Iceland ( west ) in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• Yuquot (sometimes Yukot or Friendly Cove ), a place on Nootka Iceland
• Nootka Sound, marine fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Iceland in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Biological

• Nootka cypress and Alaska cedar, called a native North American coniferous tree species of the cypress family ( Cupressaceae )

Geological

• Nootka fault zone, a transform fault west of Vancouver Iceland

Biographical

• John R. Jewitt (1783-1821), a British gunsmith and author; of the Nuu -chah 1803-1805 prisoner - nulth in Nootka Sound
• Ignatz Hülswitt (1793-1832), German travel writer; plagiarized the story of John R. Jewitt

Historically

• James Cook (1728-1779), British sailors; First Europeans in Nootka Sound in 1778
• Juan José Pérez Hernández (1725-1775), Spanish sailors; discovered in 1774 the entrance to the Nootka Sound, but did not go into it
• Nootka Sound controversy, one of Spain incident with Great Britain 1789-1795 in Nootka Sound

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