Seattle is a beautiful city located between Puget Sound, an
inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington. West of the city and beyond the
Sound, are the Olympic Mountains. East, beyond Lake Washington and the Eastside
suburbs are Lake Sammamish, the Newcastle Hills, and the Cascade Range. The
rivers, forests, lakes, and fields were once rich enough to support one of the
world's few sedentary hunter-gatherer societies. Opportunities for sailing,
skiing, bicycling, camping, and hiking are nearby and accessible almost all the
year. The city itself, somewhat like San Francisco, is hilly, though not
uniformly so. Like Rome, the city lies on seven hills: First Hill, Capitol Hill,
Queen Anne Hill, Magnolia, Beacon Hill, Mount Baker, and Crown Hill. West
Seattle allegedly forms an eighth hill, since the highest point in the city
rises 520 feet out of the ocean there in the High Point neighborhood. The
hilliest areas are near an isthmus in the city centre, where Downtown rises
dramatically away from the chief harbor, an inlet of Puget Sound called Elliott
Bay. The geography of Downtown and its immediate environs has been significantly
altered by regarding projects, a seawall, and the construction of an artificial
island, Harbor Island, at the mouth of the city's industrial Duwamish Waterway.
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