Introduction
The coastline of the state of Washington is 4,296 km long and consists of three segments: the eastern coast and islands from the Canadian border in the north down to the straits and islands of Puget Sound in the south, the northern coast of the Olympic Peninsula along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the outer, western, coast facing the Pacific Ocean. Along the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula is the Hood Canal, a 104 km long inundated glacial trough. An account of the coastal features of Washington State was provided by Shepard and Wanless (1971) and a geomorphic classification of the ocean coast by Terich and Schwartz (1981).
Locations of places mentioned can be found in the Washington Atlas and Gazetteer published by the DeLorme Mapping Company, P.O. Box 298, Freeport, Maine 04032, USA http://www.delorme.com. Further topographic details are shown on the relevant 1:24,000 Washington 7.5 min maps produced by the United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado...
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Schwartz, M., Terich, T. (2010). Washington. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8639-7_3
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