Yakutat Bay
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Yakutat Bay (Lingít: Yaakwdáat G̱eeyí) is a Template:Convert 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.<ref>Historic Earthquakes: Yakutat Bay, Alaska – September 10, 1899. United States Geological Survey</ref>
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.<ref name=Khlebnikov/>Template:Rp It was known as New Russia, Yakutat Colony, or Slavorossiya.<ref> Template:GNIS </ref>
Other names
Yakutat Bay has had various names.
- James Cook called it "Bering Bay".<ref name=Khlebnikov>Khlebnikov, K.T., 1973, Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America, Kingston: The Limestone Press, Template:ISBN</ref>Template:Rp
- Jean-François de La Pérouse, who visited it in 1786, named it "Baie de Monti" for one of his officers.<ref name=USGS>Template:Cite book</ref>
- The same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay"<ref name="USGS" />
- The Spanish called it "Almirantazgo."<ref name="USGS" />
- It was also called "Port Mulgrave" when Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra visited the bay in 1791.<ref>Template:Usurped from the Alaska Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society</ref>
- Yuri Lisyansky called it "Jacootat" or "Yacootat" when he visited in 1805.<ref name="USGS" />
References
External links
- Marine Forecast Template:Webarchive for Yakutat Bay from the National Weather Service