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Thread #110957 Message #2332761
Posted By: Don Firth
04-May-08 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Volcano active, slept for ten thousand years
Subject: RE: BS: Volcano activ , slept for ten th,years
That should be "Juan de Fuca."
Juan de Fuca was a Greek navigator (real name, Ioannis Phokas—John Focas) employed by Spain in the sixteenth century to sail northward from Mexico and look for the "Strait of Amian," an imagined northern passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.