Elliott Bay

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 sea Puget Sound, it is home to the Port of Seattle, which, in 2002, was the [http://www.marad.dot.gov/Marad_Statistics/Con-Pts-02.htm 9th] busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world. [http://www.aapa-ports.org/industryinfo/statistics.htm]

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.

May through September, a small passenger ferry known as the Elliott Bay Water Taxi [http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/oto/water_taxi.html] runs across the bay, connecting downtownSeattle with West Seattle (Seacrest Dock).

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", are named after the bay, as is the quite real Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle's Pioneer Square.

The last remaining model of the Boeing 307 crashed here in 2002 during its final flight to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.


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