thumb|right|hood canal separates the kitsap peninsula and the olympic peninsula. hood canal is a fjord forming the western lobe, and one of the four main basins,environmental history and features of puget sound, see also: map of subareas of puget sound, national oceanic and atmospheric administration and national marine fisheries servicefeatures of puget sound region: oceanography and physical processes, chapter 3 of the state of the nearshore report, king county department of natural resources, seattle, washington, 2001. of puget sound in the state of washington. hood canal is not a canal in the sense of being a man-made waterway&mdash;it is a natural waterway. ==geography== right|thumb|great bend of hood canal from the southeast hood canal is long and narrow with an average width of  and a mean depth of . it has  of shoreline and  of tideland. its surface area is  and it contains a volume of water totaling . hood canal extends for about  southwest from the entrance between foulweather bluff and tala point to union, where it turns sharply to the northeast, a stretch called the great bend. it continues for about  to belfair, where it ends in a shallow tideland called lynch cove. along its entire length, hood canal separates the kitsap peninsula from the olympic peninsula of washington. the u.s. navy's naval base kitsap, bangor annex, is located on the eastern shore of hood canal near the town of bangor. hood canal has several internal bays, the largest of which is dabob bay. most of dabob bay is a naval restricted area, and is used by the submarines stationed at the bangor base. quilcene bay is an inlet extending northwest from dabob bay. near the north end of hood canal is port gamble, a bay and a town of the same name. several rivers flow into hood canal, mostly from the olympic peninsula, including the skokomish river, hamma hamma river, duckabush river, dosewallips river, and big quilcene river. small rivers emptying into hood canal from the kitsap peninsula include the union river, tahuya river, and dewatto river. ==geology==  hood canal and the rest of puget sound were created about 13,00
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