Sound

Explorers for hundreds of years hoped they would discover the Northwest Passage – an all-water route leading from Europe to the Far East through the northern part of the Americas. Think how awkward that would be – an ocean channel more than 3,000 miles long, snaking across the U.S. and/or Canada, making North Dakota and Saskatchewan into ports. Just so a bunch of spice merchants would have it easy!

They thought they'd found the Northwest Passage when they sailed into Puget Sound.