Deception Pass
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| Connects waters | Skagit Bay ( Puget Sound ) | |
| with water | Juan de Fuca street | |
| Separates land mass | Whidbey Island | |
| of land mass | Fidalgo Island | |
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| Geographical location | 48 ° 24 '26 " N , 122 ° 38' 41" W | |
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| bridges | Deception Pass Bridge | |
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Deception Pass is a strait in northwest Washington state that separates Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island . It connects to the Puget Sound belonging Skagit Bay with the Strait of Juan de Fuca .
history
The first Europeans to cross this passage formed a group of sailors under Joseph Whidbey on June 1, 1792 . They belonged to the Vancouver Expedition , and George Vancouver was the passage the name of "deception" , in German "deception" because it has previously looked so that it is in place at the strait is a narrow bay negotiated a drive-through. The discovery turned the supposed peninsula into Whidbey Island.
Within this strait, just east of the Deception Pass Bridge, lies the small Ben Ure Island , which played a role in the smuggling of Chinese immigrants. Ure and his partner Lawrence "Pirate" Kelly were quite successful in this business and played cat and mouse with the United States Customs Department for years. Ure had its own base at Deception. Local lore reports that Ure's Indian woman camped on Strawberry Island, which was visible from the open sea, and that Ure used a fire to signal that the air was clean and that her husband could safely bring in the illegal cargo. During the transport Ure packed the Chinese immigrants in sacks from Hessian , which he got rid of when customs approached. He threw them overboard without further ado , and the currents of the tides later washed the bodies of immigrants north and west of the passage on the shores of San Juan Island , and many of them ended in a bay known as Dead Man's Bay .
Between 1910 and 1924 there was a quarry in operation at Deception Pass, which was a branch of Walla Walla's state prison . On the Fidalgo Island side were barracks for about 40 inmates convicted of various crimes, including murder. The hewn stone was loaded onto barges and shipped to Seattle. The camp was disbanded in 1924, but the remains of the quarry are still visible. However, the place is dangerous. Numerous serious accidents have occurred over the years because visitors lost their footing on the steep cliffs.
In July 1935, the Deception Pass Bridge between Whidbey Island and Fidalgo Island was completed. This leads over Pass Island , a small island lying in the passage. Before the bridge was completed, travelers and traders had to use a ferry to commute between Fidalgo Island and Whidby Island.
Deception Pass is now located within Deception Pass State Park, which is the most visited state park in Washington with over two million visitors annually. The park was established in the 1930s, and the park's streets, trails, and buildings were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps . Deception Pass is primarily a destination for kayakers and boat tourists.
Deception pass in culture
The horror film Ring was partly shot in the area around the strait.
The Seattle -based grunge band Mudhoney named a song on their 1993 EP Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew called “Deception Pass” .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ James W. Phillips: Washington State Place Names . University of Washington Press, 1971, ISBN 0-295-95158-3 .
- ↑ Whidbey Island and The Legend of Deception Pass: Former Guard Remembers Pass Prison ( Memento from December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )