Yakutat Bay
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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.
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]
[edit] Other names
Yakutat Bay has had various names. It has been called "Bering Bay", on the assumption that Vitus Bering visited it in 1741.[citation needed] La Pérouse, who visited it in 1786, named it "Baie de Monti" for one of his officers.[citation needed] The same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay", while the Spanish called it "Almirantazgo."[citation needed] It was also called "Port Mulgrave" when Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra sailed into the bay[2], looking for the Northwest Passage.
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[edit] References
- ^ Historic Earthquakes: Yakutat Bay, Alaska - September 10, 1899 from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards website
- ^ Filipino American History Timeline: 1791 from the Alaska Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society
[edit] External links
Marine Forecast for Yakutat Bay from the National Weather Service
