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	Juan de Fuca at Juan de Fuca Cottages
		Juan de Fuca at Juan de Fuca Cottages
		Juan de Fuca cabins and cottages is located in Sequim Washington and our cabins and cottages are right on the bluffs overlooking Sequim, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and all of Juan de Fuca.
		Juan de Fuca is all about staying at Juan de Fuca cabins and cottages and our Sequim Washington Lodging that we have.
	www.juandefuca.com /juandefuca.html?source=spiderfood (178 words)

	Strait of Juan de Fuca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Strait of Juan de Fuca separates Vancouver Island of British Columbia from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.
		The Strait of Juan de Fuca is the principal outlet for the Georgia Strait and Puget Sound, connecting both to the Pacific Ocean.
		It was named in 1788 by the English Captain John Meares of the ship Felice for Juan de Fuca, the Greek sailor who claimed to have gone on a voyage with Spanish explorers in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of Anián.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca (417 words)

	Juan De Fuca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Juan De Fuca, of whom the Juan de Fuca strait is named, explored parts of Saskatchewan in 1791.
		Although Saskatchewan did not exist as a province at that point, Juan De Fuca was commissioned by the Spanish King Carlos IV to explore the west coast before the Russians in an attempt to colonize more land.
		Juan De Fuca, as part of the Francisco Eliza expeditions 1790-92 went inland along the west coast of North America along the First Nations trade routes.
	www.neutralground.sk.ca /artistprojects/spanishpeoples/fuca.html (438 words)

	Juan de Fuca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He sailed through the Strait of Juan de Fuca (which was named for him in 1725) and believed it to be the beginning of a route to the Atlantic Ocean.
		After sailing back to Acapulco, Mexico, de Fuca was not rewarded by Spain for his journey, and his discovery of the strait was not entirely believed until Captain Vancouver retraced de Fuca's route 200 years later.
		Juan de Fuca Strait, inlet of the Pacific Ocean, 100 mi (161 km) long and 11 to 17 mi (18–27 km) wide, between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Washington state, linking the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound with the Pacific; forms part of the U.S.-Canada border.
	www.stormpages.com /miliaresis/fuca.htm (237 words)

	Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
		Welcome to the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail - a 47 kilometer hiking trail stretching along the western shoreline of southern Vancouver Island, Canada, from China Beach, just west of the community of Jordan River and extending to Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew.
		Please remember that the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail is a wilderness area.
		Transportation to and from the Juan de Fuca Trail
	www.sookeoutdoors.com /juandefucatrail (893 words)

	Juan de Fuca Strait of - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Juan de Fuca, Strait of, arm of the Pacific Ocean, between north-western Washington and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
		San Juan Islands, island group constituting San Juan County, north-western Washington, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		Victoria (city, Canada), city, capital of British Columbia, Canada, on the south-eastern tip of Vancouver Island, overlooking the Strait of Juan de...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Juan_de_Fuca_Strait_of.html (120 words)

	AllRefer.com - Juan de Fuca Strait (Oceans And Continents) - Encyclopedia
		Juan de Fuca Strait[wAn du fyOO´ku] Pronunciation Key, inlet of the Pacific Ocean, 100 mi (161 km) long and 11 to 17 mi (18–27 km) wide, between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Washington state, linking the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound with the Pacific; forms part of the U.S.-Canada border.
		Victoria, British Columbia, the strait's largest city, is located at its eastern end; ferries connect it with the U.S. mainland.
		Discovered by the English captain Charles W. Barkley in 1787, the strait was named for a sailor, Juan de Fuca, who reputedly had explored it for Spain in 1592.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JuandeFu.html (218 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Traffic Separation Schemes: In the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Its Approaches; in Puget Sound and ...
		The TSSs in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and its approaches were adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on April 3, 1981, and implemented on January 1, 1982.
		Reconfiguring and extending seaward the TSS at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca; 2.
		Reconfiguring and extending seaward the TSS at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/August/Day-27/i21785.htm (6563 words)

	strait of juan de fuca map and map of the strait of juan de fuca history information page
		The Strait of Juan de Fuca, approximately 102 miles in length and 10 to 18 miles wide, is the access route to the Pacific Ocean from Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia.
		It was named in 1788 by the English Captain John Meares of the ship Felice, for Juan de Fuca, a fabled Greek mariner who explored the area in the late 16th century.
		The cold waters of the strait, because of their exposure to the generally westerly winds and waves of the Pacific, are often thick with fog, and much rougher than the more protected waters of Puget Sound and the inner coastlines of British Columbia and the U.S. Marine forecast for the Juan de Fuca Strait here
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/juandefuca.htm (294 words)

	Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, Port Renfrew, B.C, Canada
		Juan de Fuca Provincial Park is over 1,528 hectares of rugged wilderness beauty sprawling with sandy beaches and protected by rainforest trails.
		Juan de Fuca Park has four main adventures accessing the west coast and they are China Beach, the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, Sombrio Beach and Botanical Beach.
		Juan de Fuca Provincial Park is located on the west coast of southern Vancouver Island reaching from China Beach, just west of the community of Jordan River, to Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew.
	www.vancouverislandaccommodations.com /parks/juandefuca/park.html (617 words)

	San Juan Islands
		The San Juan Islands are settled in-between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Georgia Strait.
		The mixing of freshwater and saltwater layers in Haro Strait occurs due to the sills at the North and South ends of the narrow channel (Gerdes 2000).
		The San Juan Channel is one of three channels that connect the Strait of Georgia to the Pacific.
	courses.washington.edu /uwtoce05/webg4/index.htm (532 words)

	Juan de Fuca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Juan de Fuca (born 1536 as Ioannis Phokas in Kefalonia/Greece; died 1602 in Zákynthos/Greece, often reported as Apostolos Valerianos), was a Greek captain employed by Spain to sail northward from Mexico and look for a northern passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
		In 1592, his exploration took him into the body of water, the Strait of Juan de Fuca (since 1788 named after him).
		The Juan de Fuca Plate, which also bears his name, is a tectonic plate subducting under the northerly portion of the western side of the North American Plate along the coasts of Oregon and Washington States in the US.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Juan_de_Fuca (166 words)

	Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112
		Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112
		Reaching farther out into the cold waters of the North Pacific than any other mainland point in the lower 48 states, this Byway follows the shoreline of a glacial fjord that connects Puget Sound to the Pacific Ocean.
		While you travel along the remote stretch of coastline with rugged cliffs and forests, watch as eagles search for food among inter-tidal rocks and gray whales feed in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/13740 (357 words)

	Juan de Fuca Marine Trail Vancouver Island
		The trail is being upgraded with funding from Forest Renewal BC and the Environment Youth Team (E-Team).
		The Juan de Fuca marine Trail does not connect to the West Coast Trail, part of the Pacific Tim National park Reserve.
		Private bus service to the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail may be available.
	www.juandefucamarinetrail.com (354 words)

	Index of /~kate
		My project is part of Parker MacCready's study of coastal mixing in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		Colleagues at the University of Victoria, the Institute of Ocean Sciences, and University of British Columbia are investigating flow in the Strait as well, and there are collaborations on fieldwork such as the June 2000 cruise.
		Please see my page on features in the Strait visualized by SAR, as well as SAR imagery page for images sorted by their point in the tidal cycle.
	faculty.washington.edu /~kae/jdf/Juan_de_Fuca.html (1454 words)

	Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112 - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112 - Overview
		View the wild shoreline along the Sail and Seal Rocks; these picturesque twin offshore rocks are the center of popular feeding grounds for gray whales, then watch for the many species of migrating and resident birds all along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		Whether it's watching the waves break, learning about Native American cultures, or watching whale spouts, the Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway will be an adventure to remember.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/13740/overview.html (599 words)

	Juan de Fuca Strait — Infoplease.com
		Cape Flattery - Flattery, Cape, NW Wash., at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait; discovered in 1778 by Capt. James...
		The strait story: there are some places you can only get to know and truly appreciate from a boat and Jim Anderson has a lock on one.......
		Resurfacing: resident orcas off the coast of San Juan Island and Olympic National Parks face a series of environmental threats.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0826677.html (331 words)

	USGS: Neotectonic Mapping of Eastern Juan de Fuca Strait, Cascadia Forearc Region
		The area of eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca spans a concentration of modern crustal seismicity which extends northwards from Puget Sound.
		Earthquakes are common under the eastern Juan de Fuca Strait in northern Washington State.
		Neotectonics of the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca region, northwestern Washington and southwestern British Columbia.
	erp-web.er.usgs.gov /reports/annsum/vol40/pn/g2726.htm (1289 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Regulated Navigation Area, Strait of Juan de Fuca and Adjacent Coastal Waters of Washington; ...
		Regulated Navigation Area, Strait of Juan de Fuca and Adjacent Coastal Waters of Washington; Makah Whale Hunting
		The interim rule has moved the RNA boundary within the Strait of Juan de Fuca westward.
		165.1310 Strait of Juan de Fuca and adjacent coastal waters of Northwest Washington; Makah Whale Hunting--Regulated Navigation Area.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/1998/October/Day-01/g26340.htm (4831 words)

	Province misses the boat on Victoria’s sewage problem
		By not committing its 1/3 share for a new sewage plant, the government is allowing the CRD to continue flaunting the province's environmental protection laws, and to remain the only major center in Canada that is not committed to treating its sewage.
		The CRD dumps 120 million litres of raw sewage a day into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the body of water separating British Columbia from Washington State.
		A sixty square kilometre area around the outfalls is closed to all shellfish harvest and to the swimming scallop fishery due to high fecal coliform counts.
	www.georgiastrait.org /Articles2006/crd-sewageproblem.php (396 words)

	San Juan Islands History, Geology-Cultural-Historical Information
		The San Juan Islands is a chunk of an ancient continent which attached itself to the mainland millions of years ago.
		Cutlar had to row 15 miles across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Olympic Peninsula a few times to get the seed for his crops and lost most of his crops more than once due to Griffin's porker pigging out on it.
		The oldest rocks in the San Juan Islands are Devonian limestone, argillite, fl shale, siltstone, and andesite tuff.
	www.sanjuanislandsdirectory.com /history.htm (1676 words)

	In the Northwest: Victoria still treats Strait of Juan de Fuca as its toilet
		But Victoria continues to treat the Strait of Juan de Fuca as its own municipal toilet.
		Across the water on the American side, Port Townsend, Sequim and Port Angeles have spent millions of dollars to install secondary treatment plants, which reduce the amount of suspended solids and remove 90 to 99 percent of coliform bacteria.
		On the Strait of Juan de Fuca, however, not even minimal progress is evident.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/190255_joel10.html (1073 words)

	Strait of Juan de Fuca: Touring the Northern Olympic Peninsula \| Washington
		Preview: Between the Olympic Peninsula’s verdant wilderness and the southern rim of Vancouver Island lies the Strait of Juan de Fuca, dividing the United States from Canada.
		Highlights include: ferry rides, views of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, historical museums, a National Wildlife Refuge, a herb farm, a Native American museum, the northwest corner of the United States, the Makah Indian reservation, hiking trails, and rugged coastline.
		Strait of Juan de Fuca: Touring the Northern Olympic Peninsula Topo Map
	www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=XGP213-S03 (261 words)

	De Fuca Juan - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Fuca Juan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		De Fuca, Juan (1536-1602), Greek navigator who discovered the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the coast of present-day Washington State and British...
		More MSN Search results on "De Fuca Juan"
	uk.encarta.msn.com /De_Fuca_Juan.html (65 words)

	Juan de Fuca Summary Report, Year Two
		This summary report is an expanded abstract of the second year (2002) of field studies conducted in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (the “Strait”) for the NOAA Fisheries-sponsored offshore mariculture feasibility study described in prior reports (Rensel and Forster 2002a, 2002b).
		The precise cause(s) of the differences are unknown, but may relate to constriction of the Strait to its narrowest width at this point.
		Graphs on the left are perpendicular to shore transects, graphs on right are a series of parallel near shore transects through the entire Strait near the US shore. See full report for details.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /docaqua/juandefucarept.htm (2434 words)

	See America's Byways - Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - Washington
		The Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway takes visitors through such diverse landscape that travelers will not be able to catch their breath.
		The byway travels along the north edge of Washington state right next to the sandy beaches and shoreline of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		The sights and sounds of the culture of various communities in the area add to the rich scenic qualities of this byway.
	www.seeamerica.org /byways/html/byways_pages/WAstrait.html (109 words)

	TrekEarth \| The Strait of Juan de Fuca Photo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Photos: Earth >> North America >> United States >> West >> Washington >> Strait of Juan de Fuca
		This photo was taken on the Washington State side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
		Next time I might try taking a smidge off of the top, but besides that this is an amazing photo.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/North_America/United_States/photo418200.htm (261 words)

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