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Dungeness River

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Length
  
45 km

Mouth
  
Strait of Juan de Fuca

Bridges
  
Dungeness River Bridge

Source
  
Olympic Mountains

Country
  
United States of America

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The Dungeness River is a 28-mile (45 km) long river located in the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. It rises near Mount Constance in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park, flows through the Buckhorn Wilderness, passes by the town of Sequim, and empties into the Strait of Juan de Fuca at Dungeness Bay, behind the Dungeness Spit. One of its main tributaries is the Gray Wolf River.

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Map of Dungeness River, Washington, USA

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 the British Channel, I called New Dungeness.

Sequim dungeness river nearly flooding


References

Dungeness River Wikipedia