how long is straits of juan de fuca
The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about 154 kilometres long that is the Salish Sea's outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down the center of the Strait. It was named in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, for Juan de Fuca, the Greek navigator who sailed in a Spanish expedition in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of AniÃ¡n. Barkley was the first non-indigenous person to