Location
This winter quarters for the crew was built on Disappointment Inlet (now called Lemmens Inlet) on Meares Island, which is in Clayoquot Sound just north of Tofino. At the inlet, Fort Defiance was on the eastern side where the geography could provide natural defenses against attacks. Gray named the cove Adventure Cove. The location of the post was identified in 1966. That name was officially adopted by British Columbia in 1975. At the same time the little island in the cove, which Kendrick had fortified, was named Columbia Islet. Fort Defiance itself was on the mainland of Meares Island. Today it is a protected 135-acre (0.55 km2) archaeological site.
Coordinates: 49°12′19″N 125°50′55″W / 49.20521°N 125.84873°W / 49.20521; -125.84873
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