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Elliott Bay

January 26, 2023

Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound. It is in the U.S. state of Washington, extending southeastward between West Point in the north and Alki Point in the south. Seattle was founded on this body of water in the 1850s and has since grown to encompass it completely. The waterway it provides to the Pacific Ocean has served as a key element of the city's economy, enabling the Port of Seattle to become one of the busiest ports in the United States.

Elliott Bay
Aerial view of Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay
Coordinates47°36′11″N 122°22′23″W / 47.603°N 122.373°W / 47.603; -122.373Coordinates: 47°36′11″N 122°22′23″W / 47.603°N 122.373°W / 47.603; -122.373
River sourcesDuwamish River
Ocean/sea sourcesPuget Sound
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface area21 km2 (8.1 sq mi)
SettlementsSeattle
References[1]

History

The Duwamish people lived in the vicinity of Elliott Bay and the Duwamish River for thousands of years and had established at least 17 settlements by the time white settlers came in the 1850s.[2] Among the earliest white settlements was by the Denny Party at New York Alki, which is in the present-day neighborhood of Alki in West Seattle, however after a hard winter they shifted across Elliott Bay near the present-day Pioneer Square, which became Seattle. Over the years the city expanded to cover all of the waterfront on Elliott Bay and codified it as one of its fairways (a navigable waterway).[3]

The bay was named during the Wilkes expedition in 1841,[4] after an uncertain namesake. Candidates include members of the expedition: ship's chaplain Jared Elliott, ship's boy George Elliott, and midshipman Samuel Elliott. The last has been deemed the most likely namesake.[5] Commodore Jesse Elliott has also been proposed as a possible source of the name.[6] The bay has been referred to as Duwamish Bay and Seattle Harbor,[7] especially before the US Board on Geographic Names officially settled on the name "Elliott Bay" in 1895.[4]

A local legend says that the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, which peaked in the early 20th century, was so-named by a Seattleite who looked out over Elliott Bay and remarked that the activity resembled that of mosquitoes.[8] Two notable sinkings related to the Mosquito Fleet occurred in the bay: the Dix in 1906, taking with it dozens of lives, and the Multnomah in 1911. Eventually these commercial passenger services faded as automobiles and ferries rose in popularity.

The last remaining model of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditched into Elliott Bay in 2002 during a final test flight from Boeing Field to Everett. The craft, named the Flying Cloud, had been the subject of an eight-year restoration project meant to ready it for display at the National Air and Space Museum.[9] Despite the incident, the aircraft was again restored, flew to the Smithsonian, and was put on display.[10]

Seattle's Crystal Pool Natatorium used water pumped in from the Bay.

Features

 
Elliott Bay and the Seattle waterfront, looking north from the Pacific Coast Co. dock, c. 1907

West Point and Alki Point are the headlands into Puget Sound recognized as the northern and southern entrances of Elliott Bay respectively. A line drawn between these two points demarcates the bay to the east from the open sound to the west.[3][11] More precisely, the bay has been defined as being east from a line drawn from Duwamish Head north to Magnolia Bluff.[12] The Duwamish River empties into the southeastern part of the bay. This area was extensively modified by human development in the 20th century to channelize the river and fill in tideflats to create Harbor Island, which was once the world's largest artificial island.[13] West of the river delta the land juts north into the bay at Duwamish Head. To the east running north and northwest is the heart of Seattle, the Alaskan Way Seawall, the Central Waterfront, and Smith Cove.

Elliott Bay is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world.[14][15] Cruise ship business, serving Alaskan cruises, became increasingly important in the 2000s.[16] The 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 Seattle–Winslow (Bainbridge Island) route is the most heavily used in the state ferry system in terms of number of vehicles and passengers transported.[17] The King County Water Taxi, a passenger ferry, runs across the bay, connecting Downtown Seattle with West Seattle (Seacrest Dock) and Vashon Island.[18]

 
Elliott Bay Park along the waterfront, downtown Seattle

Two marinas are in Elliott Bay. The larger of them is the privately owned Elliott Bay Marina, in the Magnolia/Interbay neighborhoods at Smith Cove, with 1,200 slips.[19][20] Bell Harbor Marina, operated by the Port of Seattle, is in the Central Waterfront along Belltown. Up to 70 vessels can be moored there.[21]

Numerous piers extend into the bay, especially along Seattle's Central Waterfront. Piers 57 and 59 house tourist destinations, including the Seattle Great Wheel and the Seattle Aquarium. On Pier 67 is The Edgewater Hotel. Pier 86 is a major grain shipping terminal operated by the Louis Dreyfus Group.[22] Grain is carried to docked cargo ships by passing over Elliott Bay Trail and a narrow shoreline park, which also features a public fishing pier[23] near Smith Cove. In the cove is Terminal 91, which has served a variety of purposes over the years, including storage for imported automobiles and fish, and most recently became a dock for Alaskan cruise ships.[24] To the south, in West Seattle's Seacrest Park, is another public fishing pier[25] and a dive site.

As a prominent aspect of Seattle's geography, the bay has frequently been referenced in media. The Real World: Seattle, the 1998 season of the MTV reality television series, was filmed on Pier 70 on the bay.[26] The fictional Elliott Bay Towers, home of Frasier Crane on the TV series Frasier, are named after the bay. In "Grey's Anatomy", there is an episode arc in an early season in the series where intern Dr. Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, almost dies following a near-drowning when she falls into the bay after being kicked by a patient she is tending to at the scene of a passenger ferry and freight container ship collision; she is rescued just in time by Dr. Derek Shepherd, her friend and the hospital's neurosurgery chief. In Season 3 of the Seattle-set crime drama The Killing, suspect Ray Seward is incarcerated in the fictional Elliott Bay Penitentiary.[27] A simplified map of Elliott Bay is used as the "Maps" icon in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Operating System. Microsoft has its headquarters in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Ecology

Elliott Bay has been a focus for environmental concern. Urban and industrial development along its shores, and on the banks of the Duwamish River that leads into it, have caused concern over the levels of contaminants entering the water.[1] On the southern shoreline are two Superfund cleanup sites: Harbor Island[28] and the former location of Lockheed West Seattle.[29] Several other sites have been designated for cleanup, including the Pacific Sound Resources site,[30] and others along the lower Duwamish.

The downtown waterfront offers a poor habitat for the juvenile salmon that migrate from the Duwamish River, due to the darkness under the piers and the lack of food along the vertical Alaskan Way Seawall. The seawall redevelopment project aims to improve the habitat by installing underwater structures to create shallows where salmon can find food and glass blocks in the sidewalk (cantilevered over the bay) so that sunlight can illuminate the shallows even at the piers. Another issue that is currently prevalent in Elliott Bay is noise pollution. The level of noise that is currently present in Elliott Bay is legally considered to be harassment of marine mammals (Van, 2016; Welch, 2013; Wilson, 2015). It is also important to note that marine vehicles enter and exit the port twenty-four hours a day. This noise is continuous, and this can cause distress to marine mammals (Van, 2016; Welch, 2013; Wilson, 2015).[31]

References

  1. ^ a b . Damage Assessment, Remediation, & Restoration Program. NOAA Office of Response and Restoration. November 2, 2010. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Lange, Greg (October 15, 2000). "Seattle and King County's First White Settlers". HistoryLink. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "SMC 16.04.070 Fairway". Seattle Municipal Code. Seattle Office of the City Clerk. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  4. ^ a b "Elliott Bay". USGS Geographic Names Information Service. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  5. ^ Rochester, Junius (2003-02-17). "Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877)". HistoryLink. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  6. ^ Wilhelm, Honor L. (1902). The Coast. Vol. 5–6. Coast Publishing Co. p. 91.
  7. ^ Meany, Edmond S. (July 1918). "Origin of Washington Geographic Names". The Washington Historical Quarterly. 9 (2): 123.
  8. ^ Cammon Findlay, Jean; Paterson, Robin (2008). Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound. Arcadia. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-5607-9.
  9. ^ Long, Priscilla (March 29, 2002). "Historic Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditches into Elliott Bay on March 28, 2002". HistoryLink.
  10. ^ Whitford, Ellen (September 2003). "Once more with feeling". Boeing Frontiers Online. Boeing. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  11. ^ Davidson, George (1869). Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 236. . . . a very long, low sand point, called West Point, which forms the extreme northwest part of the entrance to Duwamish Bay [Elliott Bay]. The bay runs east by south six and half miles and has a width of two miles. To the south point, called Battery Point [Alki Point] . . .
  12. ^ "Chapter 13: Puget Sound, Washington". (PDF) (45th (2013) ed.). National Ocean Service. December 2, 2012. p. 527. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-03.
  13. ^ . U.S. Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07.
  14. ^ . AAPA. Archived from the original on 2006-10-04.
  15. ^ . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  16. ^ "Traffic Statistics Rider Segment Report (2011)" (PDF). Washington State Ferries. May 3, 2012.
  17. ^ "King County Water Taxi". King County Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
  18. ^ Healy, Tim (January 27, 1992). "If You've Got A Boat, Marina Has A Slip". The Seattle Times.
  19. ^ "Elliott Bay Marina Inc" (PDF). US EPA. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  20. ^ . Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  21. ^ . Port of Seattle Centennial. Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  22. ^ . Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  23. ^ . Port of Seattle Centennial. Port of Seattle. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  24. ^ . Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  25. ^ Mcfarland, Melanie (June 12, 1998). "MTV's Series Appears 'Real' In Name Only". The Seattle Times.
  26. ^ "Highlights From The Killing Story Sync for Season 3 Episode 10, 'Six Minutes'". The Killing Story Sync. AMC TV. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  27. ^ "Superfund Site: Harbor Island (Lead)". US EPA. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  28. ^ "Superfund Site: Lockheed West Seattle". National Priorities List. US EPA. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  29. ^ "Superfund Site: Pacific Sound Resources". US EPA. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  30. ^ Munsch, Stuart (October 14, 2014). "Brighter future for salmon at downtown seawall". In Simenstad, Charles; Rice, Jeff (eds.). Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. Puget Sound Institute.

External links

  •   Media related to Elliott Bay at Wikimedia Commons

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Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound It is in the U S state of Washington extending southeastward between West Point in the north and Alki Point in the south Seattle was founded on this body of water in the 1850s and has since grown to encompass it completely The waterway it provides to the Pacific Ocean has served as a key element of the city s economy enabling the Port of Seattle to become one of the busiest ports in the United States Elliott BayAerial view of Elliott BayElliott BayCoordinates47 36 11 N 122 22 23 W 47 603 N 122 373 W 47 603 122 373 Coordinates 47 36 11 N 122 22 23 W 47 603 N 122 373 W 47 603 122 373River sourcesDuwamish RiverOcean sea sourcesPuget SoundBasin countriesUnited StatesSurface area21 km2 8 1 sq mi SettlementsSeattleReferences 1 Contents 1 History 2 Features 3 Ecology 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditThe Duwamish people lived in the vicinity of Elliott Bay and the Duwamish River for thousands of years and had established at least 17 settlements by the time white settlers came in the 1850s 2 Among the earliest white settlements was by the Denny Party at New York Alki which is in the present day neighborhood of Alki in West Seattle however after a hard winter they shifted across Elliott Bay near the present day Pioneer Square which became Seattle Over the years the city expanded to cover all of the waterfront on Elliott Bay and codified it as one of its fairways a navigable waterway 3 The bay was named during the Wilkes expedition in 1841 4 after an uncertain namesake Candidates include members of the expedition ship s chaplain Jared Elliott ship s boy George Elliott and midshipman Samuel Elliott The last has been deemed the most likely namesake 5 Commodore Jesse Elliott has also been proposed as a possible source of the name 6 The bay has been referred to as Duwamish Bay and Seattle Harbor 7 especially before the US Board on Geographic Names officially settled on the name Elliott Bay in 1895 4 Duwamish Head West Seattle A local legend says that the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet which peaked in the early 20th century was so named by a Seattleite who looked out over Elliott Bay and remarked that the activity resembled that of mosquitoes 8 Two notable sinkings related to the Mosquito Fleet occurred in the bay the Dix in 1906 taking with it dozens of lives and the Multnomah in 1911 Eventually these commercial passenger services faded as automobiles and ferries rose in popularity The last remaining model of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditched into Elliott Bay in 2002 during a final test flight from Boeing Field to Everett The craft named the Flying Cloud had been the subject of an eight year restoration project meant to ready it for display at the National Air and Space Museum 9 Despite the incident the aircraft was again restored flew to the Smithsonian and was put on display 10 Seattle s Crystal Pool Natatorium used water pumped in from the Bay Features Edit Elliott Bay and the Seattle waterfront looking north from the Pacific Coast Co dock c 1907 West Point and Alki Point are the headlands into Puget Sound recognized as the northern and southern entrances of Elliott Bay respectively A line drawn between these two points demarcates the bay to the east from the open sound to the west 3 11 More precisely the bay has been defined as being east from a line drawn from Duwamish Head north to Magnolia Bluff 12 The Duwamish River empties into the southeastern part of the bay This area was extensively modified by human development in the 20th century to channelize the river and fill in tideflats to create Harbor Island which was once the world s largest artificial island 13 West of the river delta the land juts north into the bay at Duwamish Head To the east running north and northwest is the heart of Seattle the Alaskan Way Seawall the Central Waterfront and Smith Cove Elliott Bay is home to the Port of Seattle which in 2002 was the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world 14 15 Cruise ship business serving Alaskan cruises became increasingly important in the 2000s 16 The 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 Seattle Winslow Bainbridge Island route is the most heavily used in the state ferry system in terms of number of vehicles and passengers transported 17 The King County Water Taxi a passenger ferry runs across the bay connecting Downtown Seattle with West Seattle Seacrest Dock and Vashon Island 18 Elliott Bay Park along the waterfront downtown Seattle Two marinas are in Elliott Bay The larger of them is the privately owned Elliott Bay Marina in the Magnolia Interbay neighborhoods at Smith Cove with 1 200 slips 19 20 Bell Harbor Marina operated by the Port of Seattle is in the Central Waterfront along Belltown Up to 70 vessels can be moored there 21 Numerous piers extend into the bay especially along Seattle s Central Waterfront Piers 57 and 59 house tourist destinations including the Seattle Great Wheel and the Seattle Aquarium On Pier 67 is The Edgewater Hotel Pier 86 is a major grain shipping terminal operated by the Louis Dreyfus Group 22 Grain is carried to docked cargo ships by passing over Elliott Bay Trail and a narrow shoreline park which also features a public fishing pier 23 near Smith Cove In the cove is Terminal 91 which has served a variety of purposes over the years including storage for imported automobiles and fish and most recently became a dock for Alaskan cruise ships 24 To the south in West Seattle s Seacrest Park is another public fishing pier 25 and a dive site As a prominent aspect of Seattle s geography the bay has frequently been referenced in media The Real World Seattle the 1998 season of the MTV reality television series was filmed on Pier 70 on the bay 26 The fictional Elliott Bay Towers home of Frasier Crane on the TV series Frasier are named after the bay In Grey s Anatomy there is an episode arc in an early season in the series where intern Dr Meredith Grey played by Ellen Pompeo almost dies following a near drowning when she falls into the bay after being kicked by a patient she is tending to at the scene of a passenger ferry and freight container ship collision she is rescued just in time by Dr Derek Shepherd her friend and the hospital s neurosurgery chief In Season 3 of the Seattle set crime drama The Killing suspect Ray Seward is incarcerated in the fictional Elliott Bay Penitentiary 27 A simplified map of Elliott Bay is used as the Maps icon in Microsoft s Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Operating System Microsoft has its headquarters in the Seattle metropolitan area Ecology EditElliott Bay has been a focus for environmental concern Urban and industrial development along its shores and on the banks of the Duwamish River that leads into it have caused concern over the levels of contaminants entering the water 1 On the southern shoreline are two Superfund cleanup sites Harbor Island 28 and the former location of Lockheed West Seattle 29 Several other sites have been designated for cleanup including the Pacific Sound Resources site 30 and others along the lower Duwamish The downtown waterfront offers a poor habitat for the juvenile salmon that migrate from the Duwamish River due to the darkness under the piers and the lack of food along the vertical Alaskan Way Seawall The seawall redevelopment project aims to improve the habitat by installing underwater structures to create shallows where salmon can find food and glass blocks in the sidewalk cantilevered over the bay so that sunlight can illuminate the shallows even at the piers Another issue that is currently prevalent in Elliott Bay is noise pollution The level of noise that is currently present in Elliott Bay is legally considered to be harassment of marine mammals Van 2016 Welch 2013 Wilson 2015 It is also important to note that marine vehicles enter and exit the port twenty four hours a day This noise is continuous and this can cause distress to marine mammals Van 2016 Welch 2013 Wilson 2015 31 References Edit a b Elliott Bay Duwamish River WA Damage Assessment Remediation amp Restoration Program NOAA Office of Response and Restoration November 2 2010 Archived from the original on October 14 2012 Retrieved October 17 2012 Lange Greg October 15 2000 Seattle and King County s First White Settlers HistoryLink Retrieved October 16 2012 a b SMC 16 04 070 Fairway Seattle Municipal Code Seattle Office of the City Clerk Retrieved 2012 10 14 a b Elliott Bay USGS Geographic Names Information Service Retrieved 2012 10 14 Rochester Junius 2003 02 17 Wilkes Charles 1798 1877 HistoryLink Retrieved 2012 05 21 Wilhelm Honor L 1902 The Coast Vol 5 6 Coast Publishing Co p 91 Meany Edmond S July 1918 Origin of Washington Geographic Names The Washington Historical Quarterly 9 2 123 Cammon Findlay Jean Paterson Robin 2008 Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound Arcadia p 7 ISBN 978 0 7385 5607 9 Long Priscilla March 29 2002 Historic Boeing 307 Stratoliner ditches into Elliott Bay on March 28 2002 HistoryLink Whitford Ellen September 2003 Once more with feeling Boeing Frontiers Online Boeing Retrieved August 18 2012 Davidson George 1869 Coast Pilot of California Oregon and Washington Territory Washington Government Printing Office p 236 a very long low sand point called West Point which forms the extreme northwest part of the entrance to Duwamish Bay Elliott Bay The bay runs east by south six and half miles and has a width of two miles To the south point called Battery Point Alki Point Chapter 13 Puget Sound Washington U S Coast Pilot 7 PDF 45th 2013 ed National Ocean Service December 2 2012 p 527 Archived from the original PDF on 2014 01 03 Wilma David 2001 Harbor Island at the time the world s largest artificial island is completed in 1909 HistoryLink Retrieved August 17 2019 U S Waterborne Foreign Trade Containerized Cargo Top 30 U S Ports Calendar Year 2002 U S Department of Transportation Archived from the original on 2007 08 07 Port Industry Statistics AAPA Archived from the original on 2006 10 04 Cruise Statistics Port of Seattle Archived from the original on April 18 2012 Retrieved October 16 2012 Traffic Statistics Rider Segment Report 2011 PDF Washington State Ferries May 3 2012 King County Water Taxi King County Department of Transportation Retrieved 2012 08 18 Healy Tim January 27 1992 If You ve Got A Boat Marina Has A Slip The Seattle Times Elliott Bay Marina Inc PDF US EPA Retrieved October 17 2012 Bell Harbor Marina Port of Seattle Archived from the original on November 3 2012 Retrieved October 17 2012 Terminal 86 Grain Facility Port of Seattle Centennial Port of Seattle Archived from the original on January 3 2013 Retrieved October 19 2012 Elliott Bay Fishing Pier at Terminal 86 Washington Department of Fish amp Wildlife Archived from the original on November 8 2012 Retrieved October 19 2012 Terminal 91 Port of Seattle Centennial Port of Seattle Archived from the original on February 20 2012 Retrieved October 19 2012 Seacrest Park Pier Washington Department of Fish amp Wildlife Archived from the original on November 8 2012 Retrieved October 19 2012 Mcfarland Melanie June 12 1998 MTV s Series Appears Real In Name Only The Seattle Times Highlights From The Killing Story Sync for Season 3 Episode 10 Six Minutes The Killing Story Sync AMC TV Retrieved August 10 2013 Superfund Site Harbor Island Lead US EPA Retrieved December 21 2021 Superfund Site Lockheed West Seattle National Priorities List US EPA Retrieved December 21 2021 Superfund Site Pacific Sound Resources US EPA Retrieved December 21 2021 Munsch Stuart October 14 2014 Brighter future for salmon at downtown seawall In Simenstad Charles Rice Jeff eds Encyclopedia of Puget Sound Puget Sound Institute External links Edit Media related to Elliott Bay at Wikimedia 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