Nootka Sound
![Nootka Sound, marked by a red square on a NASA map of Vancouver Island.](/Images/godic/202501/30/Nootka_Sound_NASA2256.PNG")
![John Webber's](/Images/godic/202501/30/A_Native_of_King_Georges_Sound2256.jpg")
![John Webber's Man of Nootka Sound](/Images/godic/202501/30/Man_of_Nootka_Sound2256.jpg")
![Thomas Muir](/Images/godic/202501/30/Thomas_Muir_-_schottischer_Volksfreund2256.jpg")
Nootka Sound is a complex inlet or sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Historically also known as King George's Sound, as a strait it separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island.