BELLINGHAM BAY

'Bellingham Bay' is a bay located on the northern Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States. It is separated from the Puget Sound on the west by the Lummi Peninsula, Portage Island, and Lummi Island. It is bordered on the east by Bellingham, Washington, to the south-east by the Chuckanut Mountains, and to the south by Samish Bay. The Nooksack River empties into the bay, as well as does Whatcom Creek.
Bellingham Bay is named for Sir William Bellingham, who was controller of the storekeeper's account for the Royal Navy at the time that Britons under the command of George Vancouver visited the bay in June 1792.^[1]
Parts of the bay are polluted by mercury from the Georgia-Pacific pulp mill that has been on the bay since 1965, but is currently undergoing plans for clean-up.

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1. Place Names of Washington, , Robert, Hitchman, Washington State Historical Society, 1985, ISBN 0-917048-57-1