America's Other Washington: the State by bdunn02

Question 8

Puget Sound was named after Peter Puget, a Huguenot officer in the Royal Navy who sailed aboard the HMS Discovery when it took part in the area's exploration (by Europeans). Name the ship's captain, the one who actually applied Puget's name to the body of water and whose own name has also been attached to a few locations in the region.

George Vancouver

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