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History of Juan de Fuca Marine Trail
History of Juan de Fuca Marine Trail
The Juan de Fuca Marine Trail was created through the Commonwealth Nature Legacy to commemorate the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, BC. The park is approximately 1,500 hectares (about 3700 acres or 5.8 square miles) with a continuous wilderness hiking trail following about 47 kilometres (29 miles) of coastline.
This general area of Vancouver Island was known as the "Graveyard of the Pacific"
for the number of shipwrecks that occurred here. Both the Juan de Fuca Trail and the
West Coast Trail (which begins just to the north of the Juan de Fuca) were part of the lifesaving trail scratched into this rocky coastline.
The trail takes its name from Juan de Fuca, the Greek maritime pilot who served
the Spanish king Phillip II. Juan de Fuca is also the name of the strait separating Vancouver Island from Washington State.
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