Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located 45 miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington State, in the United States of America. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open The Columbia River (known as The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The bay is 15 miles long and 11 miles wide. The Chehalis River flows into its eastern end, where the city of Aberdeen stands at that river's mouth, on its north bank, with the somewhat smaller city of Hoquiam immediately to its northwest, along the bayshore. Aberdeen (ˈæbɚdiːn is a city in Grays Harbor County Washington, United States, founded by Samuel Benn in 1884 Hoquiam (ˈhoʊkwiəm is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. Besides the Chehalis, many lesser rivers and streams flow into Grays Harbor, such as the Humptulips River. The Humptulips River is a river in Grays Harbor County, Washington, in the United States. A pair of low peninsulas separate it from the Pacific Ocean, except for an opening about two miles in width. The northern peninsula, which is largely covered by the community of Ocean Shores, ends in Point Brown. Ocean Shores is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington state, United States. Facing that across the bay-mouth is Point Chehalis, at the end of the southern peninsula upon which stands the town of Westport. Westport is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.
Grays Harbor is named after Captain Robert Gray who discovered and entered it on May 7, 1792 in the course of his fur-trading voyages along the north Pacific coast of North America. Robert Gray ( May 10, 1755 – c July 1806 was an American merchant sea-captain and explorer Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Gray named the bay Bullfinch Harbor, but it was afterward named Grays Harbor by Captain George Vancouver, whose contemporaneous explorations of the region -- the ships of the two captains had met at sea, only days earlier -- were well publicised at the time, while Gray's voyages were not. Captain George Vancouver Grays Harbor was the name that stuck. (A few days later, on May 11 Gray found a navigable channel into the estuary of the Columbia River, and sailed into it, the first white man known to have done so. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople In May of 1792 American merchant Sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River becoming the first recorded European to navigate into it )[1]
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