Port Townsend Bay, also called Port Townsend,
is a marine inlet off
Admiralty Inlet at the northeastern extreme of the
Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, an ...
in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Washington. It was named Port Townsend by
George Vancouver
Post-captain, Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his Vancouver Expedition, 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern West Coast of the Un ...
in 1792. The name Port Townsend Bay is sometimes used to distinguish the bay from the city of
Port Townsend
Port Townsend is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,148 at the 2020 United States Census.
It is the county seat and only incorporated city of Jefferson County. In addition ...
on its northwestern shore. Another alternate name is Port Townsend Harbor.
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References
Port Townsend, Washington
Bays of Washington (state)
Bays of Jefferson County, Washington
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