Puget Sound

1867 nautical chart

King County Natural Areas

aquatic reserve

Maury Island Aquatic Reserve

bays

beach

borders

bridge

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

cape

census-designated place

Vashon, Washington

cities

city parks

cliff

Scatchet Head

connects to

county parks

ferry

On the deck toward Vashon Island

ferry terminal

fjord

Hood Canal

glacial erratic

Scatchet Head Erratic

history

Colonel Isaac Ebey surveys Puget Sound in the spring or summer of 1850. (historylink.org) In the spring or summer of 1850, Colonel Isaac Ebey (1818-1857) conducts a reconnaissance of Puget Sound, including Elliott Bay, the Duwamish River, and Lake Washington. His glowing description inspires several early settlers to make their homes in the Puget Sound region.
Vashon glacier begins to melt and recede from Puget Sound region and Columbia Basin around 16,900 years ago (historylink.org)
Hood Canal and the rest of Puget Sound were created about 13,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.

inlet

Blakely Harbor

islands

maps

mentions

MODIS

namesake

In 1792, George Vancouver gave the name “Puget’s Sound” to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, in honor of Peter Puget, a Huguenot lieutenant accompanying him on the Vancouver Expedition. This name later came to be used for the waters north of Tacoma Narrows as well.

neighborhoods

peninsula

Kitsap Peninsula

photographs

railroad

Railroad to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

random

rivers

sea fruit

We concocted a chowder this evening. Potatoes, clams, fish and onions formed the ingredients, and we all had good appetite. The great quantity and variety of sea fruit to be found in the Sound and the facility with which they are obtained is a feature of the country which is very attractive. It must be especially so to the poor man, as he need never want for food. As one of the ledgers at this place expressed it,“When the tide is out the table is spread."14

sound

Possession Sound

sound of

state parks

straits

tagged

tags

sound (landform)

tributaries

unincorporated community

Dash Point, Washington

vantage point

Golden Gardens Park

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604141

Wikipedia

Puget Sound (Wikipedia) Puget Sound (/ˈpjuːdʒɪt/ PEW-jit) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca—Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and Deception Pass and Swinomish Channel being the minor.