Salish Sea Trivia

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Hint	Answer
Largest City by population	Seattle
A war between Britain and the United States was almost fought over these islands	San Juan Islands
Large penninsula home to a national park with the same name	Olympic Peninsula
Largest island by both area and population entirely in the Salish Sea	Whidbey Island
Largest city in British Columbia by population, shares the name with a city in southern Washington	Vancouver
Small peninsula split between the United States and Canada	Point Roberts/Tsawwassen
Provincial capital located on an island	Victoria
Name of above island (must include the word island in answer)	Vancouver Island
Most densely populated island	Bainbridge Island
Most northern group of islands	Discovery Islands

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State capital on the southern shore of the Salish Sea	Olympia
Straight separating the Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island	Straight of Juan de Fuca
Southern area of the Salish Sea	Puget Sound
Peninsula and county within above body of water	Kitsap Peninsula
Largest river by volume that empties into the Salish Sea	Fraser River
Name of the group of large marine mammals living in and around the Salish Sea	Southern Resident Killer Whales
Culturally significant fish to the indigenous peoples, spawns in rivers then migrates to the ocean	Salmon
Second largest island entirely within the Salish Sea and largest on the Canadian side of the border	Texada Island
Northern straight of the Salish Sea	Straight of Georgia
Named after this group of indigenous peoples	Coast Salish