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4 unusual facts about Kitsap Peninsula


February 13, 1979 windstorm

The mesoscale low caused a particularly intense pressure gradient to develop across the Kitsap Peninsula region.

Kitsap Peninsula

The U.S. Navy's Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and Naval Base Kitsap (comprising the former NSB Bangor and NS Bremerton) are on the Peninsula.

MV Rhododendron

Her original use in Washington from 1953 to 1961 was on a route from the Olympic Peninsula to the Kitsap Peninsula, near the current site of the Hood Canal Bridge.

Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

As a modern reminder of the little ships, in 2001, Kitsap County inventoried all the many landings and docks of the Mosquito Fleet on Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap Peninsula, and developed the Kitsap County Mosquito Fleet Trail for bicycles and foot traffic.



see also

Eglon

Eglon, Washington, a community in the U.S. state of Washington on the Kitsap Peninsula

Olalla

Olalla, Washington, an unincorporated settlement on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington, United States

Southworth

Point Southworth - on Kitsap Peninsula on the western side of the northern entrance to Colvos Passage in Puget Sound