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Steilacoom Ferry

Ferry service across Cormorant Passage to Ketron island. Ketron Island is separated from the mainland by Cormorant Passage in Nisqually Reach of Puget Sound. It was once known as Gove Island when Captain Warren Gove lived there. William Kittson was a factor or agent of the Hudson’s Bay Company at nearby Fort Nisqually in the 1840s. Peter Puget of the Royal Navy called it Long Island during his survey of lower Puget Sound in 1792.

Cormorant passage was named in 1846, by R. N. Inskip and entered on British admiralty charts in 1847. It was to honor H.M. paddle-sloop Cormorant which was on this station from 1844 until 1850.

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