Yakutat Bay
Bay in Alaska, US
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Yakutat Bay (Lingít: Yaakwdáat G̱eeyí) is a 29-kilometre-wide (18 mi) bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Yuri Lisyansky in 1805.
Yakutat Bay was the epicenter of two major earthquakes on September 10, 1899, a magnitude 7.4 foreshock and a magnitude 8.0 main shock, 37 minutes apart.[1]
The Shelikhov-Golikov company (precursor of the Russian-American Company), under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, founded a settlement in Yakutat Bay in 1795.[2]: 15–16 It was known as New Russia, Yakutat Colony, or Slavorossiya.[3]
Other names
Yakutat Bay has had various names.
- James Cook called it "Bering Bay".[2]: 15
- Jean-François de La Pérouse, who visited it in 1786, named it "Baie de Monti" for one of his officers.[4]
- The same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay"[4]
- The Spanish called it "Almirantazgo."[4]
- It was also called "Port Mulgrave" when Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra visited the bay in 1791.[5]
- Yuri Lisyansky called it "Jacootat" or "Yacootat" when he visited in 1805.[4]
