Carr Inlet, in southern

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in the

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, is an arm of water between Key Peninsula and Gig Harbor Peninsula. Its southern end is connected to the southern basin of Puget Sound. Northward, it separates

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and Fox Island. The northern end of Carr Inlet is named Henderson Bay, which feeds into Burley Lagoon. Carr Inlet was named by

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during the

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of 1838–1842, to honor Overton Carr, one of the expedition's officers.

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