DUNGENESS RIVER

The 'Dungeness River' is located in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It rises near Mount Constance in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park, flows through the Buckhorn Wilderness, near the town of Sequim, and drains into the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the Dungeness Spit.
The river was named for Dungeness Spit. The name "Dungeness" refers to the Dungeness headland in England. It was given by George Vancouver in 1792, who wrote: ''The low sandy point of land, which from its great resemblance to Dungeness in ths British Channel, I called New Dungeness.''^[1]

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See also

★ List of Washington rivers

★ Dungeness crab

★ Gray Wolf River

References

1. Washington State Place Names, , James W., Phillips, University of Washington Press, 1971,

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