Editing George Vancouver (section)

====Further explorations====
The next year, 1793, he returned to [[British Columbia]] and proceeded further north, unknowingly missing the overland explorer [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Mackenzie]] by only 48 days. He got to 56°30'N, having explored north from Point Menzies in Burke Channel to the northwest coast of [[Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)|Prince of Wales Island]]. He sailed around the latter island, as well as circumnavigating [[Revillagigedo Island]] and charting parts of the coasts of [[Mitkof Island|Mitkof]], [[Zarembo Island|Zarembo]], [[Etolin Island|Etolin]], [[Wrangell Island|Wrangell]], [[Kuiu Island|Kuiu]] and [[Kupreanof Island]]s.<ref name=Vancouver1801>{{cite book
 |author1     = Vancouver, George
 |author2     = Vancouver, John
 |title       = A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world
 |publisher   = J. Stockdale
 |year        = 1801
 |location    = London
 |url         = https://archive.org/details/avoyagediscover00vancgoog
 |access-date = 2 January 2016
}}</ref> With worsening weather, he sailed south to Alta California, hoping to find [[Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra|Bodega y Quadra]] and fulfil his territorial mission, but the Spaniard was not there. The Spanish governor refused to let a foreign official into the interior. Vancouver noted that the region's "only defenses against foreign attack are a few poor cannons".<ref name=Rolle/> He again spent the winter in the Sandwich Islands.

In 1794, he first went to [[Cook Inlet]], the northernmost point of his exploration, and from there followed the coast south. Boat parties charted the east coasts of [[Chichagof Island|Chichagof]] and [[Baranof Island]]s, circumnavigated [[Admiralty Island]], explored to the head of [[Lynn Canal]], and charted the rest of Kuiu Island and nearly all of Kupreanof Island.<ref name=Vancouver1801/> He then set sail for [[Great Britain]] by way of [[Cape Horn]], returning in September 1795, thus completing a [[circumnavigation]] of [[South America]].