Skye but the meaning of this Gaelic name is unclear. , which means "island of the mist" (a translation of the Norse name), is a poetic Gaelic name for the island. At , Skye is the second-largest island in Scotland after Lewis and Harris. The coastline of Skye is a series of peninsulas and bays radiating out from a centre dominated by the Cuillin hills (Gaelic: ). Malcolm Slesser suggested that its shape "sticks out of the west coast of northern Scotland like a lobster's claw ready to snap at the fish bone of Harris and Lewis" and W. H. Murray,
Hills in the Puget Lowland contain several peaks over high, including the Fidalgo Island high point, Mount Erie. Mason County's Olympic Mountains foothills are called the Satsop Hills. Hills in the Puget Lowland Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between and rarely more than above sea level. Hills are often notable geologically and for social reasons, such as the seven hills of Seattle. The Puget Lowland lies between the Cascades and Olympic Mountains and once contained a plateau of glacial till not usually more than above sea level. The plateau, "the