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In November 1791, while exploring the South Pacific, his crew were the first Europeans to sight the Chatham Islands. In October 1792, while exploring the Pacific Northwest of North America, Vancouver ordered Broughton to explore the lower Columbia, between present-day Oregon and Washington, with several boats from Broughton's ship. Broughton and his party navigated upriver as far as the Columbia River Gorge. On October 30October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. Events 1470 Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. 1831 In Southampton County, Virginia,, he reached the his farthest point up the Columbia, landing in eastern Multnomah CountyMultnomah County is a county located in the U. State of Oregon, the smallest in area but the largest in population due to Portland, the county seat and largest city in Oregon. The county was named after a Native American people first recorded in the journ east of PortlandPortland is the largest city in Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. It is a major Pacific seaport located about sixty miles from the west coast of the United States, situated on both sides of the Willamette River, just south of its confluence wit and northwest of Mt. Hood. He named Mt. Hood for Viscount Samuel Hood1724 1816 by James Northcote, painted 1784. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ( December 12, 1724 January 27, 1816) was a British admiral. The son of Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh in Somerset, and prebendary of Wells, Samuel the younger entered the navy on, AdmiralThe word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning "commander of the seas. Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of t of the British Fleet.

A plaque erected by the State of Oregon along Interstate 84Interstate 84 is the designation of two interstate highways in the United States. The Western Interstate 84 The western Interstate 84 runs from an intersection with Interstate 5 at Portland, Oregon to an intersection with Interstate 80 at Echo, Utah—rough in the Columbia Gorge commemorates the spot where Broughton landed in 1792.