Puget Sound
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Puget Sound is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound has one m
Snow-capped peaks are a backdrop to many Puget Sound scenes; here Mount Rainier is seen from Gig Harbor.
The Downtown Seattle skyline, seen from a state ferry on Elliott Bay
Low tide on Whidbey Island
Evening on Puget Sound by Edward S. Curtis, 1913
Sound (geography)
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In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean
Puget Sound
…system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound has one major and two minor connections to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which in turn connects to the open Pacific Ocean. The major connection is Admiralty…
The Aldersund in Helgeland, Norway, separates the island of Aldra (left side) from the continent.
View over the Øresund (English: The Sound), from Helsingborg, Sweden
Long Island Sound in the New York metropolitan area, seen from space at night
Puget Sound, as seen from the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington