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Admiralty Inlet Admiralty Inlet seen at low tide from Whidbey Island Port Townsend, Admiralty Inlet and Port Townsend Bay. Admiralty Inlet is a strait in the U.S. state of Washington connecting the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound. It lies between Whidbey Island and the northeastern part of the Olympic Peninsula.
Map highlighting the city of Port Townsend, Port Townsend Bay is to the south of the city Satellite image showing the city of Port Townsend and Port Townsend Bay. Port Townsend Bay, also called Port Townsend, [1] is a marine inlet off Admiralty Inlet at the northeastern extreme of the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.
The Point Wilson Light is an active aid to navigation located in Fort Worden State Park near Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. [3] It is one of the most important navigational aids in the state, overlooking the entrance to Admiralty Inlet, the waterway connecting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.
Port Townsend is located at the northeastern tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and developed beginning about 1850 as a strategically placed well-sheltered deep-harbor port at the junction of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Admiralty Inlet, which provide access to Puget Sound. It grew as a major customs point, and as a shipment point for ...
Admiralty Inlet is a bay in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It extends southerly from Lancaster Sound along the western shore of Baffin Island 's Borden Peninsula . [ 3 ] Its only permanent settlement is the hamlet of Arctic Bay , which is located on Uluksan Peninsula , a landform that juts into Admiralty Inlet south of ...
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Fort Casey and Admiralty Head Lighthouse from Puget Sound. Fort Casey was named for Brigadier General Thomas Lincoln Casey, U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. [4] Designed as part of the massive modernization program of U.S. seacoast fortifications initiated by the Endicott Board, construction on Fort Casey began in 1897.
Admiralty Inlet Natural Area Preserve in Island County, Washington is part of the Washington Natural Areas Program. [2] It lies along Admiralty Inlet within Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve on land owned by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust with a conservation easement owned by the Washington Department of Natural Resources .