- Grays Harbor
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Grays Harbor is named after Captain Robert Gray who discovered and entered it on
May 7 ,1792 in the course of his fur-trading voyages along the north Pacific coast of North America. Gray named the bay Bullfinch Harbor, but it was afterward named Grays Harbor by CaptainGeorge Vancouver , whose contemporaneous explorations of the region -- the ships of the two captains had met at sea, only days earlier -- were well publicised at the time, while Gray's voyages were not. Grays Harbor was the name that stuck. (A few days later, onMay 11 Gray found a navigable channel into the estuary of the Columbia River, and sailed into it, the first white man known to have done so.)cite web
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* [http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=46.95083&lon=-124.04972&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=1000 Topographic map]
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