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The Strait of Juan de Fuca (officially named Juan de Fuca Strait in Canada) is a body of water about long that is the Salish Sea's main outlet to the Pacific Ocean.[1]

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  1. 96 relations: Admiralty Inlet, Alaska, Anacortes, Washington, Ancestry.com, Atlantic Ocean, Baja California, British Columbia, California sea lion, Canada, Canada–United States border, Cape Flattery, Capital Regional District, Cetacea, Channel (geography), Charles William Barkley, Chinook salmon, Clallam County, Washington, Clipper Navigation, Common murre, Cowichan Valley Regional District, Crosscut.com, Deception Pass, Discovery Island (British Columbia), Equidistance principle, Executive Council of British Columbia, Fidalgo Island, Francisco de Eliza, Gale warning, Geographical Names Board of Canada, Gonzalo López de Haro, Graveyard of the Pacific, Gray whale, Haro Strait, Humpback whale, Iceberg Point, Imperial Eagle (ship), International law, Island County, Washington, Jefferson County, Washington, José María Narváez, Juan Carrasco (explorer), Juan de Fuca, Juan de Fuca Channel, Köppen climate classification, La Push, Washington, List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States, Lopez Island, Manuel Quimper, Marilyn Bell, Mediterranean climate, ... Expand index (46 more) »

  2. Bodies of water of Vancouver Island
  3. Canada–United States border disputes
  4. Capital Regional District
  5. Disputed waters
  6. Southern Vancouver Island
  7. Straits of British Columbia
  8. Straits of Washington (state)

Admiralty Inlet

Admiralty Inlet is a strait in the U.S. state of Washington connecting the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Admiralty Inlet are straits of Washington (state).

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Anacortes, Washington

Anacortes is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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California sea lion

The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canada–United States border

The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world.

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Cape Flattery

Cape Flattery is the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States.

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Capital Regional District

The Capital Regional District (CRD) is a local government administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Channel (geography)

In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait.

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Charles William Barkley

Charles William Barkley (c. 1759 – 16 May 1832) was a ship captain and maritime fur trader.

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Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon.

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Clallam County, Washington

Clallam County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Clipper Navigation

Clipper Navigation, Inc., is an American ferry operator and subsidiary of Förde Reederei Seetouristik based in Seattle.

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Common murre

The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk.

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Cowichan Valley Regional District

The Cowichan Valley Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that is on the southern part of Vancouver Island, bordered by the Nanaimo and Alberni-Clayoquot Regional Districts to the north and northwest, and by the Capital Regional District to the south and east. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Cowichan Valley Regional District are southern Vancouver Island.

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Crosscut.com

The Cascade PBS newsroom, formerly Crosscut.com, is an American nonprofit news website based in Seattle.

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Deception Pass

Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Deception Pass are straits of Washington (state).

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Discovery Island (British Columbia)

Discovery Island is located off the eastern side of Vancouver Island and is viewable from Ten Mile Point, near Cadboro Bay, and Oak Bay.

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Equidistance principle

The equidistance principle, or principle of equidistance, is a legal concept in maritime boundary claims that a nation's maritime boundaries should conform to a median line that is equidistant from the shores of neighboring nations.

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Executive Council of British Columbia

The Executive Council of British Columbia (the Cabinet) is the Cabinet of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Fidalgo Island

Fidalgo Island is an island in Skagit County, Washington, located about north of Seattle.

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Francisco de Eliza

Francisco de Eliza y Reventa (1759 – February 19, 1825) was a Spanish naval officer, navigator, and explorer.

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Gale warning

A gale warning is an alert issued by national weather forecasting agencies around the world in an event that maritime locations currently or imminently experiencing winds of gale force on the Beaufort scale.

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Geographical Names Board of Canada

The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.

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Gonzalo López de Haro

Gonzalo López de Haro (bef. 1788 in Puebla – 1823) was a Spanish naval officer and explorer, notable for his expeditions in the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th century.

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Graveyard of the Pacific

The Graveyard of the Pacific is a somewhat loosely defined stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast stretching from around Tillamook Bay on the Oregon Coast northward past the treacherous Columbia Bar and Juan de Fuca Strait, up the rocky western coast of Vancouver Island to Cape Scott.

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Gray whale

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale,Britannica Micro.: v. IV, p. 693.

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Haro Strait

The Haro Strait is one of the main channels connecting the Strait of Georgia to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, separating Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada from the San Juan Islands of Washington state in the United States. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Haro Strait are international straits, straits of British Columbia and straits of Washington (state).

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Iceberg Point

Iceberg Point is a prominent point west-southwest of Ryswyck Point, on the east side of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

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Imperial Eagle (ship)

Imperial Eagle, originally named Loudoun (also spelled Louden, Loudin, and Lowden), was a 400-ton (bm) British merchant ship, launched in 1774 at Liverpool.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Island County, Washington

Island County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Jefferson County, Washington

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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José María Narváez

José María Narváez (1768 – August 4, 1840) was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator notable for his work in the Gulf Islands and Lower Mainland of present-day British Columbia.

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Juan Carrasco (explorer)

Juan Carrasco was a Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator.

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Juan de Fuca

Juan de Fuca (10 June 1536, Cefalonia 23 July 1602, Cefalonia)Greek Consulate of Vancouver, "".

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Juan de Fuca Channel

Juan de Fuca Channel is a submarine channel off the shore of Washington state, United States and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Push, Washington

La Push is a small unincorporated community situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River in Clallam County, Washington, United States, in the western Olympic Peninsula.

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List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States

Canada and the United States have one land dispute over Machias Seal Island (off the coast of Maine), and four other maritime disputes in the Arctic and Pacific. Strait of Juan de Fuca and List of areas disputed by Canada and the United States are Canada–United States border disputes and disputed waters.

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Lopez Island

Lopez Island is the third largest of the San Juan Islands and an unincorporated town in San Juan County, Washington, United States.

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Manuel Quimper

Manuel Quimper Benítez del Pino (c. 1757 – April 2, 1844) was a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official.

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Marilyn Bell

Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio (born October 19, 1937) is a Canadian retired long distance swimmer.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Mike de Jong

Mike de Jong (born 1963 or 1964) is a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Natural prolongation principle

The natural prolongation principle or principle of natural prolongation is a legal concept introduced in maritime claims submitted to the United Nations.

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Neah Bay, Washington

Neah Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Makah Reservation in Clallam County, Washington, United States.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.

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Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 15 marine sanctuaries administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Olympic Peninsula

The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park.

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Orca

The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.

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Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Oregon boundary dispute are Canada–United States border disputes.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pig War (1859)

The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington Territory (present-day State of Washington). Strait of Juan de Fuca and Pig War (1859) are Canada–United States border disputes.

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Point Partridge

Point Partridge is the most westerly point of Whidbey Island, the largest island in Puget Sound.

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Point Wilson

Point Wilson is at the end of the Quimper Peninsula, a northeast extension of the Olympic Peninsula and the northeasternmost point of Jefferson County, Washington, United States, approximately two miles north of the Port Townsend business district.

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Port Angeles, Washington

Port Angeles is a city and county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States.

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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Quimper Peninsula

The Quimper Peninsula is a narrow peninsula forming the most northeastern extent of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in the northwestern United States of America.

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Race Rocks Ecological Reserve

Race Rocks Ecological Reserve is a BC Parks ecological reserve off the southern tip of Vancouver Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada.

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Rosario Strait

Rosario Strait is a strait in northern Washington state, separating San Juan County and Skagit and Whatcom Counties. Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait are straits of Washington (state).

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Salish Sea

The Salish Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington.

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San Juan County, Washington

San Juan County (Condado de San Juan) is a county in the Salish Sea in the far northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington.

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San Juan Island

San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.

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San Juan Islands

The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

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Sequim, Washington

Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States.

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Skagit County, Washington

Skagit County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Small craft advisory

A small craft advisory is a type of wind warning issued by the National Weather Service in the United States.

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Steller sea lion

The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion) is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly found in the coastal marine habitats of the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, from north-central California to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to Alaska.

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Storm warning

At sea, a storm warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when winds between 48 knots (89 km/h, 55 mph) and 63 knots (117 km/h, 73 mph) are occurring or predicted to occur soon.

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Strait

A strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins.

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Strait of Anián

The Strait of Anián was a semi-mythical strait, documented from around 1560, that was believed by early modern cartographers to mark the boundary between North America and Asia and to permit access to a Northwest Passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.

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Strait of Juan de Fuca laser incident

On 4 April 1997, a Canadian Armed Forces helicopter was allegedly illuminated by a laser while observing the Russian merchant ship and suspected spy vessel Kapitan Man, which was in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in U.S. territorial waters near Port Angeles, Washington.

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Stz'uminus First Nation

The Stz'uminus First Nation (formerly known as the Chemainus Indian Band and Chemainus First Nation) is a First Nations government located in southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, near the town of Ladysmith, British Columbia.

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Submarine canyon

A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to, from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon.

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Swinomish Channel

The Swinomish Channel is an long salt-water channel in Washington state, United States, which connects Skagit Bay to the south and Padilla Bay to the north, separating Fidalgo Island from mainland Skagit County.

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Tatoosh Island, Washington

Tatoosh Island is a small island and small group of islands about offshore (northwest) of Cape Flattery, which is on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain.

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Toponymy

Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Board on Geographic Names

The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Victoria Express

Victoria Express, also known as Victoria Rapid Transit, was the name of a private, seasonal ferry operation based in Port Angeles, Washington.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington State Ferries

Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a government agency that operates automobile and passenger ferry service in the U.S. state of Washington as part of the Washington State Department of Transportation.

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Whidbey Island

Whidbey Island (historical spellings Whidby, Whitbey, or Whitby) is the largest of the islands composing Island County, Washington, in the United States, and the largest island in Washington state.

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See also

Bodies of water of Vancouver Island

Canada–United States border disputes

Capital Regional District

Disputed waters

Southern Vancouver Island

Straits of British Columbia

Straits of Washington (state)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca

Also known as Juan De Fuca Strait, San Juan Strait, Straight of juan de fuca, Straits of Juan de Fuca.

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