Kitsap Peninsula
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The Kitsap Peninsula is an arm of land that is part of the larger Olympic Peninsula in Washington state (U.S.) that lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound. It encompasses all of Kitsap County except Bainbridge and Blake Islands, as well as the northeastern part of Mason County and the northwestern part of Pierce County. The highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula is Gold Mountain. The U.S. Navy's Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and Naval Base Kitsap (comprised of the former NSB Bangor and NS Bremerton) are on the Peninsula. Its main city is Bremerton.
Though earlier referred to as the Great Peninsula or Indian Peninsula, its current name comes from Kitsap County, which occupies most of the peninsula. It is thus the namesake of Chief Kitsap, an 18th- and 19th-century warrior and medicine man of the Suquamish Tribe. The Suquamish were one of the historical fishing tribes belonging to the Coast Salish people, and their ancestral grounds were based on the eastern shores of the Kitsap Peninsula. Seattle is named after the tribe's most famous leader, Chief Sealth. The Port Madison Indian Reservation, located between Poulsbo and Agate Pass, is the modern Suquamish tribal center. The Kitsap Peninsula is also home to the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, another branch of the Coast Salish people, whose tribal center is the Port Gamble S'Klallam Indian Reservation at Little Boston located on the northwest coast of the peninsula.
The peninsula is connected to the eastern shore of Puget Sound by Washington State Ferries runs from Bremerton to Downtown Seattle, from Kingston to Edmonds and from Southworth to West Seattle via Vashon Island, by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, and to the northeastern shore of the main Olympic Peninsula by the Hood Canal Bridge.
[edit] Cities and towns
- Bangor
- Belfair
- Bremerton
- East Port Orchard
- Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake
- Gig Harbor
- Hansville
- Indianola
- Keyport
- Kingston
- Manchester
- Navy Yard City
- Parkwood
- Port Gamble
- Port Orchard
- Poulsbo
- Purdy
- Seabeck
- Silverdale
- Southworth
- Suquamish
- Tracyton
[edit] Bays and Inlets
- Appletree Cove
- Carr Inlet
- Case Inlet
- Colvos Passage
- Dyes Inlet
- Liberty Bay
- Port Gamble
- Port Madison
- Port Orchard
- Sinclair Inlet
- Tacoma Narrows
[edit] External links
Kitsap Peninsula Visitor Information
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