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Hale Passage
Hale
Passage
is the name of two different
bodies of water
in
Puget Sound
, in the U.S. state of
Washington
.
In
the north
Sound, in
Whatcom County
, Hale Passage
separates
Lummi Island
from the mainland near
Bellingham
.
In
the south
Sound in
Pierce County
, another Hale Passage separates
Fox Island
from the
Kitsap Peninsula
, near
Gig Harbor
.
In both
cases
, the
passages
were named by the
Wilkes Expedition
for ethnologist
Horatio Hale
.