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Admirality Inlet is a
strait in the
U.S. state of
Washington connecting the eastern end of the
Strait of Juan de Fuca to
Puget Sound. It lies between
Whidbey Island and the northeastern part of the
Olympic Peninsula.
Admiralty Inlet is generally considered to be the northern part of Puget Sound's Main Basin. Its northern boundary is defined as a line running between
Point Wilson and
Point Partridge, and it extends south to the southern end of Whidbey Island and
Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula, where is joins the Central Basin of Puget Sound's Main Basin. Admiralty Inlet's area is, with a volume of . Its shoreline is in length. Its mean depth is .
Though only wide at the narrowest point (between the
Point Wilson and
Admiralty Head lighthouses), it's through this passage that nearly all the seawater flows into and from
Puget Sound during daily
tidal variations. Tidal currents can reach six
knots in the area northeast of Point Wilson.
All sea vessels must pass through Admiralty Inlet to enter or leave Puget Sound, except those small enough to use
Deception Pass. This fact led to the selection of
Port Townsend on the Quimper Peninsula as the official port of entry for the Puget Sound region during the early days of commerce in the area. It also led to the federal decision in the late 1890s to construct
Fort Worden,
Fort Casey, and
Fort Flagler around Admiralty Inlet as a "Triangle of Fire" for the protection of Puget Sound from a hostile fleet.
Today a great deal of maritime freight traffic passes through Admiralty Inlet to the major shipping ports at
Seattle and
Tacoma, and of
United States Navy vessels to the Naval facilities in Puget Sound. The
Keystone-
Port Townsend run of the
Washington State Ferries crosses the inlet and serves as a link for
State Route 20.
The first Europeans to find and map Admiralty Inlet were the Spanish of the 1790 expedition of
Manuel Quimper. It was Quimper's pilot,
Juan Carrasco, who sighted the inlet. Thinking it was a bay he named it
Ensenada de Caamaño, after the Spanish naval officer
Jacinto Caamaño. Two years later Admiralty Inlet was given its present name by
George Vancouver, after his ultimate commanders, the
Board of Admiralty. The Spanish name was later given to
Camano Island.
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