Shelikhov Street

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Shelikhov Street
The Shelichov Strait between Kodiak Island and the mainland
The Shelichov Strait between Kodiak Island and the mainland
Connects waters Cook Inlet
with water Pacific Ocean
Separates land mass Kodiak , Afognak
of land mass mainland america
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Geographical location 57 ° 52 '54 "  N , 154 ° 25' 31"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 52 '54 "  N , 154 ° 25' 31"  W.
Shelichov Strait (Alaska)
Shelikhov Street

The Shelikof Strait ( English Shelikof Strait ) is a strait between the south coast of Alaska and the islands of Kodiak and Afognak . The Cook Inlet is located at the northern end of the Straits.

The strait was named after the Russian navigator and trader Grigori Ivanovich Schelichow . Shelichov founded Alaska's first Russian settlement in 1784 in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak.

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