Sand Point is a
neighborhood
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in
Seattle
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, Washington, United States, named after and consisting mostly of the
Sand Point peninsula that juts into
Lake Washington
Lake Washington () is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.
It is the largest lake in King County, Washington, King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington (state), Was ...
, which is itself largely given over to
Magnuson Park. Its southern boundary can be said to be N.E. 65th Street, beyond which are
Windermere
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and
Hawthorne Hills; its northern boundary, N.E. 95th Street, beyond which is
Lake City. The western limit of the neighborhood, beyond which are
View Ridge and
Wedgwood
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, is not fixed and can be said to be anywhere up the hill that extends west from Sand Point Way N.E. as far as 35th Avenue N.E. It is also the former home of Seattle Naval Air Station.
Sand Point Airfield
Sand Point Airfield was the endpoint of the
first aerial circumnavigation
The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1924 by four aviators from an eight-man team of the United States Army Air Service, the precursor of the United States Air Force. The 175-day journey from April to September covered ...
of the world in 1924. The historic flight helped convince Congress to develop Sand Point as a
naval air station
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.
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]
The station ceased operations in 1970.
Climate
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the
Köppen Climate Classification
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system, Sand Point has a
warm-summer Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...
, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.
Notable residents
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Gordon Hirabayashi, a
civil rights leader and 2012 recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
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, who challenged the constitutionality of
Japanese American internment camps during
World War II
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. Hirabayashi was born on April 23, 1918. His parents were farmers in the Sand Point area along the shore of
Lake Washington
Lake Washington () is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.
It is the largest lake in King County, Washington, King County and the second largest natural lake in the state of Washington (state), Was ...
.
References
External links
Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas — Sand Point
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