GREEK explorer Ioannis Phokas (GREEK: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾶς) better known by his Spanish name, Juan de Fuca, is to be honored with a statue in Vancouver — despite previous claims he never existed at all. Reputedly born in 1536 on the GREEK Ionian island of Kefalonia, and dying there in 1602, Phokas ...