Nootka
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Nootka may refer to:
- The Nuu-chah-nulth indigenous peoples and their Nuu-chah-nulth languageNuu-chah-nulth languageNuu-chah-nulth is a Wakashan language spoken in the Pacific Northwest of North America, on the west coast of Vancouver Island from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound in British Columbia, by the Nuu-chah-nulth people...
- The place called Nootka SoundNootka SoundNootka Sound is a complex inlet or sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Historically also known as King George's Sound, as a strait it separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island.-History:The inlet is part of the...
- The island known as Nootka IslandNootka IslandNootka Island is an island near Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It contains 534 km² of area. It is separated from Vancouver Island by Nootka Sound and its side-inlets....
- The three treaties signed in the 1790s, known as the Nootka ConventionNootka ConventionThe Nootka Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s which averted a war between the two empires over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.The claims of Spain dated back...
s- The associated Nootka CrisisNootka CrisisThe Nootka Crisis was an international incident and political dispute between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain, triggered by a series of events that took place during the summer of 1789 at Nootka Sound...
- The associated Nootka Crisis
- The ship HMCS Nootka (R96)HMCS Nootka (R96)HMCS Nootka was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946-1964.She received the unit name Nootka while still under construction in Halifax after the RCN renamed the Fundy-class minesweeper to in 1943....
- The ship HMCS Nootka (J35)HMCS Nootka (J35)HMCS Nootka was a Fundy-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1938-1945.She was renamed HMCS Nanoose in 1943 to allow the unit name Nootka to be used by the destroyer ....
- The Nootka Rose or Rosa nutkana
- The Nootka Cypress or Callitropsis nootkatensisCallitropsis nootkatensisNootka Cypress , formerly Cupressus nootkatensis, Xanthocyparis nootkatensis or Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, is a cypress with a chequered taxonomic and nomenclatural history. This species goes by many common names including Nootka Cypress, Yellow Cypress, and Alaska Cypress...
- The Nootka FaultNootka FaultThe Nootka Fault is an active transform fault running southwest from Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.-Geology:...
on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada