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The term "Puget Sound" is used not just for the body of water but also the Puget Sound region centered on the sound. Major cities on the sound include Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett. Puget Sound is also the second-largest estuary in the United States, after Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. [8]
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.
Another project begun in 1913, the Bell Street Terminal, the Port's new headquarters near the north end of the Central Waterfront, loaded its first cargo October 28, 1913 while the warehouse facilities were still under construction, [19] and by 1914 served much of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and provided easy access for farmers around Puget ...
Elliott Bay is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Cruise ship business, serving Alaskan cruises, became increasingly important in the 2000s. [ 16 ]
The city of Seattle, Washington, is located on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east; water comprises approximately 41% of the total area of the city. [1] It was founded on the harbor of Elliott Bay , home to the Port of Seattle —in 2002, the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container ...
The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. It was 2016, and at the time, the cruise ship Serenity was the largest ...
The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
A view of a vacant field in Roy that falls within a six mile radius where the next major airport in the Puget Sound could be built, on Sept. 21, 2022. Contenders for Pierce County airport