Port Angeles, WA, is a city of 20,060 (2022) on the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Indigenous peoples lived in the area for millennia. Spanish explorer Francisco de Eliza explored the area in 1791 and named it Puerta Nuestra Senora de los Angeles. The first European settlers arrived in 1859, and renamed the port Port Angeles. Beginning as a small whaling and fishing village, Lumber mills and fishing enable the town to gradually grow in the 20th century. Now home to Peninsula College, Port Angeles welcomes tourists visiting Olympic National Park and traveling by the ferry MV Coho across the Strait to Victoria, capital of British Columbia.