Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is the body of water on which
Seattle, Washington is located. A line drawn from
Alki Point in the south to West Point in the north serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound. Part of
Washington's inland bay
Puget Sound, it is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the busiest
port in the
United States by TEUs of
container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world.
Elliott Bay is also home to Colman Dock, the main Seattle terminal of the
state's ferry system, the largest in the country.
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Elliott Bay is the body of water on which
Seattle, Washington is located. A line drawn from
Alki Point in the south to West Point in the north serves to mark the generally accepted division between the bay and the open sound. Part of
Washington's inland bay
Puget Sound, it is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the busiest
port in the
United States by TEUs of
container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world.
Elliott Bay is also home to Colman Dock, the main Seattle terminal of the
state's ferry system, the largest in the country. Sailings regularly depart from Seattle to Bainbridge Island and
Bremerton.
The
Duwamish Waterway is the main freshwater
stream emptying into the
bay.
The fictional Elliott Bay Towers, home of
Frasier Crane on the TV series
Frasier is a critically acclaimed American TV [i] sitcom [i] ...
, are named after the bay.
The last remaining model of the
Boeing 307 crashed here during its final flight to the
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
