Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rúa (July 17, 1750 – May 24, 1820) was a Spanish naval officer and explorer from Galicia serving the Spanish crown. He...
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Inlet) is the entrance around Wadleigh Island. It was named by Francisco Antonio Mourelle on May 24, 1779. HMCS Quadra, a Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Summer...
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of Spanish maps, called the bay "Puerto del Baylio Bucareli." Francisco Antonio Mourelle was present with Quadra at Bucareli Bay and wrote about seeing...
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shallow shoal. Just missing the discovery of the river mentioned by Francisco Antonio Mourelle, he named them Cape Disappointment and Deception Bay. George Vancouver...
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Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle and his crew found the inlet passage to the middle of the main island. In his journal Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle wrote...
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Bahá'í faith. The islands were also visited by the Spanish under Francisco Antonio Mourelle in 1781 and Alessandro Malaspina (who unsuccessfully claimed Vavau...
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included the 1775 and 1779 voyages of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. The journal of Francisco Antonio Mourelle, who served as Quadra's second in command...
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reach the Sea of Okhotsk António Mota Portuguese 16th Japan Henri Mouhot French 19th South East Asia Francisco Antonio Mourelle Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest...
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Blas. Heceta then gave Bodega y Quadra command of the Sonora. Francisco Antonio Mourelle served as Bodega y Quadra's pilot and the two forged a strong...
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named sometime between 1775 and 1779 by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and Francisco Antonio Mourelle as "Isla Suemez". Dionisio Alcalá Galiano called...
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Independence Island, respectively. In 1781, the Spanish explorer Francisco Antonio Mourelle identified the Isla del Cocal, sometimes identified now as Nanumanga...
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Island. Obed named "Loper Island" (Niutao) which was sighted by Francisco Antonio Mourelle on May 5, 1781, and who named Niutao El Gran Cocal ('The Great...
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Quadra. With Bodega y Quadra on the Princesa was second officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle, surgeon Mariano Nunez Esquivel, pilot Jose Canizares, and second...
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Ripley and Charles A. Dana (D. Appleton and Company, 1873) p129 Francisco Antonio Mourelle, Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition, translated...
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acquired the journals of Bodega y Quadra's second commander, Francisco Antonio Mourelle, and maps made from the first two Bucareli expeditions. This inspired...
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Ripley and Charles A. Dana (D. Appleton and Company, 1873) p129 Francisco Antonio Mourelle, Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition, translated...
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European to sight Sisia was believed to be Spanish navigator Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle aboard the Princesa on 4 March 1781.[citation needed] Since then...
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in Spain, sometime between 1775 and 1780. Under the command of Francisco Antonio Mourelle he served in the Philippines and then, in 1784, traveled to the...
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Farallon Islands (category Islands of San Francisco)
Farallons". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved February 8, 2015. Rúa, Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la; Daines), Barrington (Hon (1920). Voyage of the Sonora:...
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Northwest, had on board a copy of a Spanish map made by Francisco Antonio Mourelle and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra which showed the Columbia River's...
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Names Board of Canada, in honor of the Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rúa. Maurelle Island is located northeast of Quadra Island...
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The Princess Margaret (1985) Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1956) Francisco Antonio Mourelle (1981) Douglas Albert Munro (2002) Chūichi Nagumo (1995) Napoleon...
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expedition to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In 1791 he had appointed Francisco Antonio Mourelle as commander and ordered two new schooners, Mexicana and Sutil...
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Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was given command of the Princesa. With Bodega y Quadra on the Princesa was second officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle...
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Miranda Godoy Francisco Moreno Fernández Salvador Moreno Fernández Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rúa Juan José Navarro de Viana y Búfalo José Navarro Torres...
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of Juan de Fuca since 1791. It was to be under the command of Francisco Antonio Mourelle, using two newly built schooners, Mexicana and Sutil. But Malaspina...
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Juan de Fuca. He had assigned the newly finished Mexicana, under Francisco Antonio Mourelle, to the task. Malaspina proposed sending Sutil as well, which...
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Juan de Fuca. He had assigned the newly finished Mexicana, under Francisco Antonio Mourelle, to the task. Malaspina proposed sending the Sutil as well, which...
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fleet of several xebecs and gunboats. One of his successors was Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rua, who was appointed to Algeciras in 1797 and took part...
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by Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa and Juan Antonio de Ibargoitia. The Wuvulu Web Site - Geographical Names of the Western Islands Coello, Francisco "Conflicto...
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