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The Kitsap Peninsula, bounded by the Hood Canal and Puget Sound, is an entirely separate peninsula and is not connected to the Olympic Peninsula. From Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Route 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines. The Olympic mountain range sits in the center of the Olympic Peninsula ...
The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest summit at 7,980 ft (2,432 m); however, the eastern slopes rise precipitously out of Puget Sound from sea level, and the western slopes are separated from the Pacific Ocean by ...
Located on the Olympic Peninsula, it is also a central feature of Olympic National Park. Mount Olympus is the highest summit of the Olympic Mountains; however, peaks such as Mount Constance and The Brothers , on the eastern margin of the range, are better known, being visible from the Seattle metropolitan area .
*The Bainbridge Island high point's location is reported variously. Lists of John gives Gazzam Lake Hill based on USGS topographic maps, which used stereoscopic aerial surveys. Peakbagger gives Toe Jam Hill at 15 feet higher or more, based on newer high-resolution LIDAR maps. [10]
The Olympic Peninsula was largely unmapped until surveyors Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography between 1898 and 1900, and what is now Mt. Carrie, was in 1899 one of the last remaining unnamed mountains in the Olympic range. [5] The mountain was named by Theodore Rixon for his wife Caroline "Carrie" (Jones) Rixon. [6]
Mount Tom is a remote 7,076-foot (2,157-metre) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Jefferson County of Washington state. [4] The nearest higher neighbor is Mount Olympus, 1.76 mi (2.83 km) to the east. [2]
Mount Anderson is a 7,330-foot-high (2,234 m) peak in the Olympic Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.Rising in the center of Olympic National Park in Washington state, it is the second highest peak on the Anderson Massif, after West Peak. [3]
The Little River Fault (see the QFFDB, Fault 556) is representative of an extensive zone of faults along the north side of the Olympic Peninsula and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (likely connected with the fault systems at the south end of Vancouver Island, see fault database map), but these lie west of the crustal blocks that underlie the ...
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