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Yakutat Bay is a 29-km-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 Lisianski in 1805.

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Map of Yakutat Bay, Alaska, USA

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.

The Shelikhov-Golikov company, precursor of the Russian-American Company, under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, settled Yakutat Bay in 1795. It was known as New Russia, Yakutat Colony, or Slavorossiya.

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Other names

Yakutat Bay has had various names.

  • James Cook called it "Bering Bay".
  • Jean-François de La Pérouse, who visited it in 1786, named it "Baie de Monti" for one of his officers.
  • The same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay"
  • The Spanish called it "Almirantazgo."
  • It was also called "Port Mulgrave" when Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra sailed into the bay.
  • Yuri Lisyansky called it "Jacootat" or "Yacootat" when he visited in 1805.

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    Yakutat Bay Wikipedia
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