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by holding a ceremony claiming possession of the land of "New Georgia" for Britain. Due to his circumnavigation of the world, Vancouver's dates are off by one. June 3 was, by his reckoning, June 4, the king's birthday. His possession ceremony also involved the naming of Possession Sound, Port
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Everett, WA and the mountains behind, seen looking east across Possession Sound
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Possession Sound
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slid into Possession Sound—an event known as the Great Slide. A resultant
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A Discovery Journal: George Vancouver's First Survey Season - 1792
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run crosses the narrowest section of Possession Sound.
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from the slide drowned many Indian residents of nearby
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Possession Sound is located within the Whidbey Basin
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Possession Sound is located in Strait of Juan de Fuca
Possession Sound is located in Washington (state)

48°0′40″N 122°14′29″W / 48.01111°N 122.24139°W / 48.01111; -122.24139
Type
Sound
Puget Sound
Primary inflows
Snohomish River
Islands
Camano Island
Hat Island
Everett
Mukilteo
Puget Sound
U.S. state
Washington
Whidbey Island
Snohomish County
Everett
Mukilteo
Saratoga Passage
Port Susan
Snohomish River
Port Gardner Bay
Gedney Island
George Vancouver
George III
Gulf of Georgia

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