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Portage Bay is an arm of Seattle, Washingtonmarker's Lake Unionmarker and is part of the Lake Washington Ship Canalmarker. Its western limit can be said to be the Ship Canal Bridge, which carries Interstate 5 over the water; North Passage Point Parkmarker and South Passage Point Parkmarker sit on opposite shores between the freeway's pillars. Its eastern limit is the entrance to the Montlake Cutmarker.

Named after the portage that used to be necessary to move logs from Union Bay to Lake Union before the construction of the Ship Canal, the bay is home to two yacht clubs, the Seattle and the Queen Citymarker, and many houseboats, as well as the Northwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the University of Washingtonmarker's College of Ocean and Fishery Science. It is spanned by the University Bridgemarker, which carries Eastlake Avenue from Eastlake to the University Districtmarker, and by the Portage Bay Viaduct, which carries State Route 520 from Montlake to Capitol Hillmarker.


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