Elwha Rock is a
submerged rock in
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ; ) is a complex estuary, estuarine system of interconnected Marine habitat, marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound ...
. It lies in Cayou Channel (formerly known as Harney Channel) just west of
Orcas Island
Orcas Island () is the largest of the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest, in northwestern Washington, United States.
History and naming of the island
The name "Orcas" is a shortened form of ''Horcasitas,'' from Juan Vicente de Güemes P ...
's Grindstone Harbor at a depth of
mean low water
A mean is a quantity representing the "center" of a collection of numbers and is intermediate to the extreme values of the set of numbers. There are several kinds of means (or "measures of central tendency") in mathematics, especially in statisti ...
.
It was named for the ferry which ran aground on the then-uncharted rock in 1983. The ferry ''
Nisqually
Nisqually, Niskwalli, or Nisqualli may refer to:
People
* Nisqually people, a Coast Salish ethnic group
* Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, federally recognized tribe
** Nisqually Indian Reservation, the tribe's reservation in ...
'' ran aground on the same rock in 1994.
[
The Washington Board on Geographic Names approved the name in December 1989.]San Juan Islands National Monument
San Juan Islands National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the Salish Sea in the state of Washington. The monument protects archaeological sites of the Coast Salish peoples, lighthouses and relics of early European American settl ...
in 2013.
References
External links
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Landforms of San Juan County, Washington
Puget Sound
Reefs of the United States
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