Title: Puget Sound region - Wikipedia
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Puget Sound region
Contents
History
Political geography
Climate
Flora and fauna
Places
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

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Puget Sound region
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Region around Puget Sound in Washington
Puget Sound, its basins, and major surrounding cities. The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by prehistoric glaciers. Poet Robert Sund called the Puget Sound region "Ish River country", owing to its numerous rivers with names ending in "ish", such as the Duwamish, Samish, Sammamish, Skokomish, Skykomish, Snohomish, and the Stillaguamish. The ish ending is from Salishan languages and means "people of". Contents
1 History
2 Political geography
3 Climate
4 Flora and fauna
5 Places
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
History
Evening on Puget Sound by Edward S. Curtis, 1913
The Puget Sound region was formed by the collision and attachment of many terranes ("microcontinents") to the North American Plate between about 50 to 10 million years ago. About 15,000 years ago during the Vashon Glaciation, the Puget Sound region was covered by a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The glacier that covered the area was about 3,000 feet (900 m) thick within the vicinity of Seattle. By the time Captain George Vancouver found the Sound, early native people had already been there for over 5,000 years. Logging started as early as 1853.