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13 unusual facts about Puget Sound


Arbor Heights, Seattle

Arbor Heights is a neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington, made up of the area south of SW Roxbury Street, north and east of Puget Sound, but excluding the downhill portion on the west side of this region.

Bo Bartlett

Bo Bartlett currently lives and paints on an island off the coast of Maine in summer, and on an island in the Puget Sound in Washington through the winter.

Edwin Harrison McHenry

In the 1880s on the Northern Pacific, McHenry was the principal assistant engineer on Stampede Pass during the construction of Stampede Tunnel, linking western Washington and especially the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the East by rail.

In the 1880s McHenry was the principal assistant engineer on Stampede Pass during the construction of Stampede Tunnel, linking western Washington and especially the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the East by rail.

Guillermo Söhnlein

During 2010-2012, Söhnlein helped organize five submarine exploration expeditions to Santa Catalina Island in California, Puget Sound in Washington, Monterey Bay (twice) in California, and Miami in Florida.

Gulf Islands

The term Salish Sea was adopted in 2010 to refer to the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and all connecting and adjoining waters.

Icaricia icarioides blackmorei

Icaricia icarioides blackmorei also known by its common name Puget Blue is a butterfly native to the Puget Sound area.

ParentMap Newsmagazine

ParentMap is a free monthly newsmagazine for parents in the Puget Sound area of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, published since April 2003.

Robert Miskimon

Skagit (Barnes & Noble/iUniverse, 2002) is the story of residents of the fictional Skagit Island in Puget Sound who, despite their many differences and idiosyncrasies, unite to crush a proposed bridge from their island to the mainland.

Station CAST

Other Stations (on Guam, in Puget Sound on Bainbridge Island, Guam, etc.) were tasked and staffed for signals interception and traffic analysis.

Station HYPO

Other Navy crypto stations, including Guam, Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island were tasked and staffed for signals interception and traffic analysis.

Tides of Flame

Tides of Flame regularly re-printed communiques claiming responsibility for property destruction taking place in the Puget Sound region.

Western pond turtle

Western pond turtles originally ranged from northern Baja California, Mexico, north to the Puget Sound region of Washington.


Art of Movement

The video was filmed in March, 2013, and edited by fellow AOM member Hep, showing the crew b-boying and posing on the banks of Puget Sound, with the Seattle Great Wheel in the background, in the crew's hometown of Seattle, Washington over the soundtrack of "Stop Me" by Mark Ronson.

Capitol Lake

A more limited lake was also part of the original landscape design by John Olmsted to reflect the Washington State Capitol building on Puget Sound.

Central Railroad of New Jersey

SS Asbury Park, a crack coastal steamer built for the CNJ in 1903, and subsequently rebuilt and operated as a car ferry in San Francisco Bay (1919 to 1940), Puget Sound (1943 to 1951), and the Strait of Georgia (1952 to 1976)

Coho salmon

The Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia ESU in Washington is an NMFS "Species of Concern".

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation

The Confederated Tribes' traditional territories were along the Black, Chehalis, Cowlitz, Elk, Johns, Newaukum, Satsop, Shookumchuck, and Wynoochee Rivers, and near Grays Harbor and on the lower Puget Sound of Washington.

Dolly Varden trout

The Dolly Varden trout S. malma is found in coastal waters of the North Pacific from Puget Sound north along the British Columbia coast to the Alaska Peninsula and into the eastern Aleutians, along the Bering Sea and the Arctic Sea to the Mackenzie River.

Fort Nisqually

Fort Nisqually was operated and served by Scottish gentlemen, Native Americans, Kanakas (Hawaiians), French-Canadians, Metis, West Indians, Englishmen and, in the last final years before the British cession of their claims to Puget Sound with the Oregon Treaty, a handful of American settlers.

Gersemia rubiformis

In Puget Sound, juvenile basket stars (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis) have been found to be living, growing and feeding inside the pharynges of Gersemia rubiformis polyps, only becoming free-living when they have grown large enough to catch food for themselves.

Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville

For example, the long-standing San Juan Island Water Boundary Dispute in Puget Sound, which had been left ambiguous in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 to salve relations and get a treaty sorting out the primary differences, was arbitrated by the German Emperor also in 1872.

Horatio Hale

The Hale Passages of Puget Sound were named in recognition of his service to the expedition.

KRIZ

KRIZ is a flagship station for The Z Twins, a trio of radio stations serving the Puget Sound region, most notably the African-American communities of King and Pierce County, Washington.

KYIZ

KYIZ is one of the three stations that make up part of The Z Twins, serving the Puget Sound region, most notably the African-American communities of King and Pierce County, Washington.

MV Kulshan

In the first half of the movie, the Kulshan is prominently featured when actresses Lisa Blount (Lynette Pomeroy) and Debra Winger (Paula Pokrifki) take a ride across Puget Sound aboard the "ugly", but perfectly-open-for-filming-purposes, MV Kulshan.

Naval Station Everett

Althought a Naval Reservation existed previously at the site, the history of Naval Station Everett began in 1983 when Secretary of the Navy John Lehman first proposed a new Puget Sound-area naval base as part of the Strategic Homeport concept.

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public.

Pacific Coast Joint Venture

The project in Washington focuses on bird habitats in its western and coastal regions, specifically the bays and straits of northern Washington, the southern Puget Sound and Hood Canal, the Olympic Peninsula, the southern Washington coast, and the Lower Columbia River.

Pacific Northwest Corridor

The possibility of rail development along portions of the corridor route in Washington gained prominence when Abraham Lincoln signed the Northern Pacific Charter in 1864 establishing the Northern Pacific Railway with the charge of constructing a rail connection between the Great Lakes and Puget Sound.

Ruth Agatha Houghton

Subsequent assignments included Naval Hospital, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, Naval Hospital, Puget Sound, Naval Hospital, Corona, CA.

She'll Take Romance

Linda Evans plays Jane McMillan, a Seattle TV meteorologist, Jane is assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound; Evans boyfriend played by Tom Skerritt is a nice but borish judge who spends most of the time on the sidelines.