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Zaikof Bay

Zaikof Bay

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at NE end of Montague I., trends NE to W side of Hinchinbrook Entrance, at S end of Prince William Sound, 40 mi. ENE of Chenega, Chugach Mts.

History of Zaikof Bay

Name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 6), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), presumably after Stepan Kosmovich Zaikof, who was chief of the trading post St. Nicholas (Kenai) in the 18th century.