![]() It’s believed he either misunderstood a conversation about the tribe’s name or got confused when they were describing the island as, itchme nutka, literally a place you can travel around. The sound was called Mowichat by the local tribe the Nuu-chah-luuth, and it’s believed to have got its Nootka Sound name due to some confusion when Captain James Cook for the British Navy landed there in 1778. That meant it was the perfect place for navies and trading ships to anchor before and after their journeys. An image showing the location of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island In the series, the sound - a complex network of inlets on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada - is depicted as being at the center of a conflict between the British and the Americans over its sovereignty.īut while that conflict is not actually historically accurate, Nootka Sound really was disputed over the years due to its importance as part of a trade route with China.īecause of its various inlets, and the fact it is a sound - a narrow stretch of water between two pieces of land - it provides shelter from the wild Pacific Ocean and acts as a natural harbor. In Taboo, Hardy’s character James Keziah Delaney is left the piece of land by his late father, but faces difficulties when he refuses to sell it to the all-powerful East India Company. The storyline of FX’s hit new Tom Hardy series Taboo centers around an area of land known as Nootka Sound - but is it really as significant as the show portrays? ![]() Tom Hardy as James Delaney in Taboo, which centers around the real-life Nootka Sound
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