Elliott Bay

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Elliott Bay
Aerial view of Elliott Bay

Aerial view of Elliott Bay

Waters Puget Sound
Land mass North America
Geographical location 47 ° 36 ′  N , 122 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′  N , 122 ° 22 ′  W
Elliott Bay (Washington)
Elliott Bay
width 10.5 km
depth 3.2 km
surface 21 km²
Tributaries Duwamish River
The Duwamish Head in West Seattle

The Duwamish Head in West Seattle

The Elliott Bay is part of the central region of Puget Sound in the US state of Washington , the southeast between the western point of Seattle - extends to the south - West Point - the north and the western point of West Seattle - Alki Point. Seattle was founded on this body of water in the 1850s and has since grown to completely enclose the bay. The connection it represents to the Pacific was a key element in the city's economy that made the Port of Seattle one of the most heavily used in the United States.

Elliott Bay is 21 km² in size. The Duwamish River flows into the Puget Sound here.

history

Ditching a Boeing 307 in Elliott Bay on March 28, 2002

The Duwamish lived around Elliott Bay and the Duwamish River for millennia and established at least 17 settlements by the time the white settlers established themselves here in the 1850s. One of the first white settlements was New York Alki , founded by members of the Denny Party, a wagon train led by Arthur A. Denny; today it is the Alki Point neighborhood in West Seattle. However, after a harsh winter, they moved to what is now Pioneer Square, a place that was later called Seattle. Over the years the city expanded and covered the entire shores of Elliott Bay. The city declared the bay to be one of its navigable waters.

The bay was named during the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 , but it is not known by whom. Candidates are some members of the expedition: the ship's chaplain Jared Elliott, the cabin boy George Elliott and the midshipman Samuel Elliott. The latter seems the most likely namesake. Commodore Jesse Elliott, a US Navy officer, has also been suggested as a possible source of the name. The bay is also listed as Duwamish Bay and Seattle Harbor , especially before the United States Board on Geographic Names officially named the name "Elliott Bay" in 1895.

Local legend has it that the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet , which peaked in the early 20th century, came from a "Seattleite" who saw the fleet across Elliott Bay and noticed that its activity resembled it of mosquitoes. Two notable sinkings related to the Mosquito Fleet occurred in the bay: the sinking of the steamboat Dix in 1906, which killed dozens of people, and that of the paddle steamer Multnomah in 1911. Commercial passenger shipping eventually died out as cars and ferries became more popular.

The last remaining model of a Boeing 307 crashed in 2002 during a final test flight from Boeing Field to Everett in Elliott Bay. The aircraft ( Flying Cloud ) was the subject of an eight-year restoration project; it seemed ready for display at the National Air and Space Museum . Despite the accident, the machine was restored again, flown to the Smithsonian Institution and exhibited there.

description

Elliott Bay and Seattle Waterfront, looking north from the Pacific Coast Co. Dock ( ca.1907 )

West Point and Alki Point are the headlands protruding into Puget Sound, which are considered the northern and southern entrances to Elliott Bay. A line drawn between these points separates the bay in the east from the open sound in the west. More precisely, the bay was defined as being east of a line from Duwamish Head north to Magnolia Bluff . The Duwamish River flows into the southeastern part of the bay. This area was extremely reshaped by man in the 20th century, channeling the river and replenishing the mudflats to create Harbor Island , which was once one of the largest man-made islands in the world. To the west of the river delta, the land juts north into the bay and forms Duwamish Head. Lies to the east, to the north and northwest, the heart of Seattle, the Alaskan Way Seawall (a coastal levee ), the Central Waterfront (the urbanized most area) of Seattle, and Smith Cove .

Elliott Bay is home to the port of Seattle , which in 2002 was the ninth largest seaport in the United States in terms of TEU handling for container ships ; It was ranked 46th worldwide. Cruise ships that offer tours to Alaska became increasingly important in the 2000s. The bay is also home to Colman Dock, the main terminal of the Washington ferry system , the largest in the United States. The ships operate regularly from Seattle to Bainbridge Island and Bremerton . The route to Winslow on Bainbridge Island is the busiest in the ferry system in terms of vehicles and passengers carried. The King County Water Taxi , a passenger-only ferry, runs across the bay, connecting downtown Seattle with west Seattle (from Seacrest Dock) and Vashon Island .

Elliott Bay Park on the Seattle Waterfront in Downtown Seattle

There are two marinas on Elliott Bay. The larger of the two, Elliott Bay Marina, is privately owned and located in the Magnolia and Interbay neighborhoods on Smith Cove; it has 1,200 berths. Bell Harbor Marina is operated by the Port of Seattle and is located on the Central Waterfront in the Belltown neighborhood. Up to 70 ships can moor there.

Numerous piers protrude into the bay, especially along the Seattle Central Waterfront. Piers 57 and 59 are home to tourist destinations like the Seattle Great Wheel and the Seattle Aquarium. At Pier 67 is the Edgewater Hotel, a four-story, 223-room hotel, the only over-water hotel in the area. Pier 86 is a terminal operated by the Louis Dreyfus Group specially designed for the dispatch of grain. The grain is transported to the cargo ships over the Elliott Bay Trail and through a small waterfront park, which also has a public fishing pier near Smith Cove. In the Cove is Terminal 91, which has served various purposes over the years, including as a warehouse for imported cars and fish. It recently became the dock for the Alaskan cruise lines. To the south, in West Seattle's Seacrest Park , there is another public fishing pier and a designated area for divers.

Considered a prominent aspect in Seattle's geography, the bay is often reflected in the media. The Real World : Seattle , the 1998 season of MTV's reality TV series, was shot at Pier 70 on the Bay. The fictional Elliott Bay Towers, home of Dr. Frasier Crane from the TV series Frasier are named after the bay. In season 3 of the Seattle-based crime drama The Killing , the suspect Ray Seward sits in the fictional Elliott Bay Penitentiary. A simplified map of Elliott Bay is used in the "Maps" icon in Microsoft 's Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system . Microsoft is headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area .

ecology

Elliott Bay has been a focus of environmental problems . Urban and industrial developments along its banks, as well as those of the Duwamish River that led to them, had raised concerns about the levels of pollutants being released into the waters. There are two locations on the south bank that have been cleaned up with the help of the Superfund , a federal program for the elimination of environmental problems: Harbor Island and the former Lockheed West Seattle location. Several other locations have been recognized as candidates for remediation work, including the Pacific Sound Resources location and others on Lower Duwamish.

The shore in downtown Seattle offers only an unsuitable habitat for young salmon that come from the Duwamish River, as there is not enough light under the piers and because there is no food on the vertically rising Alaskan Way Seawall. A restoration project for the Seawall aims to improve habitat conditions by adding structures underwater to create shallows where the salmon can find food. In addition, glass blocks were embedded in the sidewalks, which were built floating over the bay , so that the sunlight can illuminate the artificial shallows at the piers.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Greg Lange: Seattle and King County's First White Settlers . HistoryLink . October 15, 2000. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b SMC 16.04.070 fairway . In: Seattle Municipal Code . Seattle Office of the City Clerk. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Elliott Bay . USGS Geographic Names Information Service. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Junius Rochester: Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) . In: HistoryLink . February 17, 2003. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  6. ^ Honor L. Wilhelm: The Coast , Vol. 5-6. Coast Publishing Co., 1902, p. 91.
  7. ^ Edmond S. Meany: Origin of Washington Geographic Names . In: The Washington Historical Quarterly . 9, No. 2, July 1918, p. 123.
  8. ↑ Jean Cammon Findlay, Robin Paterson: Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound . Arcadia, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7385-5607-9 , p. 7.
  9. ↑ Priscilla Long: Historic Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditches into Elliott Bay on March 28, 2002 . In: HistoryLink . March 29, 2002.
  10. ↑ Ellen Whitford: Once more with feeling . In: Boeing Frontiers Online . Boeing. September 2003. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  11. ↑ George Davidson: Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . Government Printing Office, Washington 1869, p. 236: “… a very long, deep sandy place called West Point, which is the extreme northwest of the entrance to Duwamish Bay [Elliott Bay]. The bay extends east by south for six and a half miles [10.5 km] and is two miles [3.2 km] wide. To the southern point, called Battery Point [Alki Point] ... "
  12. ↑ US Coast Pilot 7 . National Ocean Service. December 2, 2012. Archived from the original on November 19, 2013.
  13. ↑ US Waterborne Foreign Trade, Containerized Cargo, Top 30 US Ports, Calendar Year 2002 . US Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on August 7, 2007.
  14. ^ Port Industry Statistics . AAPA. Archived from the original on October 4, 2006.
  15. ^ Cruise Statistics . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portseattle.org
  16. ↑ Traffic Statistics Rider Segment Report (2011) . Washington State Ferries. May 3, 2012.
  17. ^ King County Water Taxi . King County Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  18. ↑ Tim Healy: If You've Got A Boat, Marina Has A Slip . In: The Seattle Times , January 27, 1992. 
  19. ↑ Elliott Bay Marina Inc. . US EPA. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  20. ↑ Bell Harbor Marina . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 17, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portseattle.org
  21. ↑ Terminal 86 Grain Facility . In: Port of Seattle Centennial . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  22. ^ Elliott Bay Fishing Pier at Terminal 86 . Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 19, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wdfw.wa.gov
  23. ↑ Terminal 91 . In: Port of Seattle Centennial . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  24. ^ Seacrest Park Pier . Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 19, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wdfw.wa.gov
  25. ↑ Melanie Mcfarland: MTV's Series Appears 'Real' In Name Only . In: The Seattle Times , June 12, 1998. 
  26. ↑ Highlights From The Killing Story Sync for Season 3 Episode 10, 'Six Minutes' . In: The Killing Story Sync . AMC TV. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  27. ^ Harbor Island (lead) . US EPA. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  28. ^ NPL Site Narrative for Lockheed West Seattle . In: National Priorities List . US EPA. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  29. ^ Pacific Sound Resources . US EPA. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  30. ^ Stuart Munsch: Brighter future for salmon at downtown seawall . In: Encyclopedia of Puget Sound . Puget Sound Institute. October 14, 2014.

Web links

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