Shelikhov Street
Shelikhov Street | ||
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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 | |
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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.