2.1 Study Area |
Bainbridge Island is located within the Central Puget Sound Basin, east of the Kitsap Peninsula and west of the City of Seattle. It has a population of approximately 20,500 people. The Island is approximately five miles wide and ten miles long, encompassing nearly 17,778 acres, or 28 square miles, and is one of the larger islands in Puget Sound. Bainbridge Island shorelines border the main body of Puget Sound, a large protected embayment (Port Orchard Bay), and two high-current passages (Rich Passage and Agate Passage) (Best 2003). The Island is characterized by an irregular coastline of approximately 53 miles, with numerous bays and inlets and a significant diversity of other coastal land forms, including spits, bluffs, dunes, lagoons, cuspate forelands, tombolos, tide flats, stream and tidal deltas, islands, and rocky outcrops (Williams et al. 2003).
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