Prominent geographic points 2 Flashcards
- Conspicuous sand and gravel pits
There are two large, conspicuous sand and gravel pits on the bluffs about 1.5 miles NNE of Steilacoom. Both have T-piers served by conveyor belts from the gravel pits.
- Ketron Island
Ketron Island, 10 miles SSW of Point Defiance and E of Anderson Island, is a small, narrow island which is privately owned. It is heavily wooded with bluff shores.
- Nisqually Reach
Nisqually Reach trends S and W around Anderson Island. The S shore is occupied for nearly 1 mile offshore by Nisqually Flats, the delta formed by the Nisqually River. The flats are very soft mud and bare at low water. Two lighted buoys mark the steep N edge of the flats.
- S tip of Anderson Island
A light marks the S tip of Anderson Island at Lyle Point.
- Devils Head
Devils Head, the S point of Key Peninsula, is 280 feet high and heavily wooded. A light is shown off the S tip of Devils Head.
- Johnson Point
Johnson Point, 2 miles W of Devils Head, is 90 feet high. A light is on the sandspit at the end of the point.
- Itsami Ledge
Itsami Ledge, covered 1 fathom, lies 1 mile WSW of Johnson Point. It is surrounded by kelp and marked by a light. This is a danger in entering Henderson Inlet or Dana Passage.
- Henderson Inlet
Henderson Inlet, locally known as South Bay, immediately W of Johnson Point, extends about 4.5 miles in a S direction; the S part is an extensive flat.
- Case Inlet
Case Inlet, a popular sport fishing and resort area, extends some 14 miles N from Johnson Point.
- Harstine Island
Harstine Island forms the W side of the S part of the inlet.
- Herron Island
Herron Island, about 4 miles N of the entrance and 0.3 mile W of the E side, is a private island, with moorings for small craft. A ferry connects with the mainland at the village of Herron.
- McMicken Island
McMicken Island, 1.1 miles SW of Herron Island, is connected to Harstine Island by a sandpit which bares at low water.
- Pickering Passage
Pickering Passage indents the W shore of Case Inlet, about 2 miles N of Herron Island. The passage extends in a general S direction for 8 miles, connecting at its S end with Peale Passage and Totten Inlet. A fixed highway bridge with a clearance of 31 feet crosses the passage from Graham Point to Harstine Island, about 2.6 miles N of the entrance to Hammersley Inlet.
- Peale Passage
Peale Passage, about 4 miles long, extends NW between Harstine and Squaxin Islands, and connects with Pickering Passage.
- Dana Passage
Dana Passage, between Brisco Point, the S point of Harstine Island, and the mainland, is about 2 miles long. It is the main route to Budd Inlet and Olympia, and also joins with three other bodies of water: Eld Inlet, Squaxin Passage, and Peale Passage. Squaxin Passage leads to Totten and Hammersley Inlets, and Peale Passage leads to Pickering Passage.
- Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor, a village in the cove of the same name just E of Dofflemyer Point, has a marina with berthage for about 100 craft.
- Budd Inlet
Budd Inlet, 29 miles by water from Tacoma, is about 6 miles long, extending S from Dana Passage and terminating in flats that bare at the head of East Bay and West Bay. The entrance is between Cooper Point and Dofflemeyer Point; the latter is marked by a light and fog signal.
- Squaxin Passage
Squaxin Passage, S of Squaxin Island and Hope Island, is about 1 mile long and leads to Totten and Hammersley Inlets. A light on Hunter Point marks the SW entrance point of the passage.
- Steamboat Island
Steamboat Island, covered with private homes, is connected with Carlyon Beach on the mainland by a roadway on piling. The island, practically a part of the mainland, has abrupt shores and is heavily wooded. The NW end of the island terminates in a long sandspit marked on the end by a daybeacon.
- Arcadia
Arcadia is a small settlement on the S point of the entrance of Hammersley Inlet.
