Pickering Passage

Pickering Passage is a strait, in the southern end of part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington.

It is a nutrient rich area, producing oysters that grow very quickly.

Pickering Passage was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor Charles Pickering (naturalist), one of the expedition's naturalists.

[1] From 1922 to 1969, a ferry owned and operated by Mason County, Washington crossed Pickering Passage to link Harstine Island to the mainland.

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