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Erskine Bay

Erskine Bay

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part of Beaver Inlet on E coast of Unalaska I., Aleutian Islands. 0.7 mile wide.

History of Erskine Bay

Named for Captain Melville C. Erskine of the Alaska Commercial Company by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) in 1888. Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 14), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), referred to it as "Zal(iv) Kikukalen" or "Kikukalen Bay." Father Veniaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 162) called it "Kikukalya."