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expertise on ferns, flowering plants, lichens,
and marine algae to European knowledge of
the region.
One lasting result of the voyage resulted
from Vancouver’s friendship with Bodega y
Quadra, who sociably suggested that Vancou-
ver name “some port or island after us both, to
commemorate our meeting.... Conceiving no
spot so proper for this denomination as the
place where we had first met, which was
nearly in the center of a tract of land that had
first been circumnavigated by us.” Vancouver
decided, “I named that country the island of
Quadra and Vancouver; with which compli-
ment he seemed highly pleased.” The name
was later shortened to Vancouver Island, but
in the final decades of the 1700s, regardless of
its shifting motives, exploration of the Pacific
coastline was a genuinely international
endeavor.(^168) B Discovery of the Americas, 1492–1800
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