Strait of Juan de Fuca
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The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a body of water about 96 miles long that is the Salish Sea's main outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down t
Sunset over the strait
The Olympic Mountains of Washington as seen from the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, 1900, photo: John Wallace Jones
The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Salish Sea with the Olympic Peninsula in the background
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
Strait of Juan de Fuca
…have been the first to sail through when heading west after rounding Vancouver Island, sailing through the Strait of Georgia and sighting the entry to Puget Sound. Much of Bawlf's provocative thesis was based on the geographical information that started to leak following Drake's return to England and to show up…
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