In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fidalgo and the second or maternal family name is Lopegarcía.
Salvador Fidalgo
Born
Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía
August 6, 1756 (1756-08-06)
La Seu d'Urgell, province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain)
Died
September 27, 1803 (1803-09-28) (aged 47)
Tacubaya, New Spain
Nationality
Spanish
Occupation
explorer
Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía (6 August 1756 – 27 September 1803) was a Spanish explorer. He commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century.
SalvadorFidalgo y Lopegarcía (6 August 1756 – 27 September 1803) was a Spanish explorer. He commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and...
administrative office in Anacortes. Fidalgo Island is named for the Spanish explorer and cartographer SalvadorFidalgo who explored the area in 1790 with...
Spanish explorer SalvadorFidalgo entered the sound, naming many of its features. Some places in the sound still bear the names given by Fidalgo, as Port Valdez...
dispatched Fidalgo and Quimper on exploration voyages. Fidalgo was sent north and Quimper south. In 1790, Spanish explorer SalvadorFidalgo took the San...
establishing a base at Nootka, Eliza sent out several exploration parties. SalvadorFidalgo was sent north to the Alaska coast. Manuel Quimper, with Gonzalo López...
California. On 21 September Bodega y Quadra left Nootka Sound and SalvadorFidalgo became the commandant of the establishment there. Vancouver sent Lieutenant...
Juan Fernández Spanish 16th Juan Fernández Islands, Pacific Ocean SalvadorFidalgo Spanish 18th Pacific Northwest Peter Fidler English 18th Western Canada...
City Diego Duque de Estrada (1589–1647), soldier, explorer, writer SalvadorFidalgo (1756–1803), naval officer and cartographer, explored Alaska in 1790...
cove. In May 1790 two exploring voyages were dispatched by Eliza. SalvadorFidalgo made a voyage north to visit the Russian outposts in Alaska, while...
explorer James Cook three years later). In 1790, Spanish explorer SalvadorFidalgo led an expedition that included visits to the sites of today's Cordova...
named by Heney on March 13, 1906, based on the original name given by SalvadorFidalgo. Both these railroads were abandoned and little remains of them. A...
Saavedra Guiráldez y Ordóñez, Francisco de Eliza, SalvadorFidalgo, Jacinto Caamaño, and Salvador Menéndez Valdés. Bodega and these six officers sailed...
de Fidalgo, in honor of SalvadorFidalgo, to Rosario Strait, which was thought to be a bay. In 1791 José María Narváez renamed it Canal de Fidalgo after...
Peralta in honor of him. There was an attempt to build a fort in 1792 by SalvadorFidalgo but it inevitably failed, the support for it went towards the colony...
under the command of De Eliza, the San Carlos, under the command of SalvadorFidalgo and the Princesa Real, under the command of Manuel Quimper, sailed...
chain (Birds´ Rock or Magpies) Fidalgo Island, Washington (named after the Spanish explorer and cartographer SalvadorFidalgo) Key West, Florida (Anglicized...
under the command of de Eliza, the San Carlos, under the command of SalvadorFidalgo and Princesa Real, under the command of Manuel Quimper, sailed in early...
the end of the 18th century. In 1792, a Spanish fort was built by SalvadorFidalgo in Nuñez Gaona, now Neah Bay, on the northwest coast of the Strait...
senior officer available at San Blas. It included Ship Lieutenant SalvadorFidalgo, and Ship Ensign Manuel Quimper. Their purpose was to strengthen the...
as marines in the expeditions of Jacinto Caamaño, SalvadorFidalgo, Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, Salvador Menéndez, and Manuel Quimper of the Pacific coast...