A Map Displaying the Routes Taken by Captain Malaspina
EXPLORER: Captain Alejandro Malaspina (1754-1810)
FROM: born in Mulazzo, a fiefdom in the region of Lunigiana, Italy; sailed on behalf of Spain
SAILED WITH: Captain José Bustamante y Guerra (1753-1824)
IMPORTANT DATES: departed in 1789; in 1791, visited and charted what are now the Alaskan and Vancouver Island coasts
VOYAGE: sea
VESSELS: corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida
POTENTIAL PURPOSE: collection of data, resulting in charting, scientific, ethnographic, plant, and animal studies; in the words of Malaspina, “scientific and political”; confirmation that there was no Northwest Passage
