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Kirilof Bay

Kirilof Bay

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Region:
  • Aleutians West (CA)
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1 mi. NW of Constantine Harbor, on Bering Sea coast of Amchitka I., Rat Islands.; Aleutian Islands.

History of Kirilof Bay

Russian name given by the navigator Ingenstrem in 1830. Captain Lutke (1836, p. 324), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), called it "Kirilovskaia," as did Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 30), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).