Early Drake Researchers

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Zelia Nuttall, standing fourth from the left, is with the Sir Francis Drake Association as they commemorate Drake’s California landing. Drakes Bay is in the background.

Zelia Nuttall and George Davidson were early scholars regarding Drake’s Pacific voyage. Nuttall’s discovery of primary source Spanish documents spawned her book, New Light On Drake. Davidson, in his work with the U.S. Coast Survey, determined Drake’s landing as located at Drakes Bay, California.