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Flannapel t1_jao79mp wrote

Neat stuff. I’d read that when Vancouver named all the stuff he “discovered”, he and his crew only considered the area south of the Tacoma Narrows to be the Puget Sound. Looks like that’s reflected in this map, and the name is crammed into that small area.

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itstreeman t1_jaoit4y wrote

Any idea about puget the person? I met a person visiting from Australia who kept saying puggit sound. And it took me a few hours to understand they had only read the word, and never heard anyone pronounce puget.

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blackberrypietoday2 t1_jaoriyf wrote

>Any idea about puget the person?

Peter Puget was a British naval officer and colleague of Captain George Vancouver (who named Puget Sound after Puget) who explored and surveyed the Pacific North American coast, from the Columbia River to Alaska.

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