Three Saints Bay
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 Three Saints Bay |
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| Waters | Sitkalidak Strait (Pacific Ocean) | |
| Land mass | Kodiak Island | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ N , 153 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 2 km | |
| length | approx. 10 km | |
The Three Saints Bay is a small bay in the southeast of the island of Kodiak in Alaska ( USA ). It is 97 km southwest of the city of Kodiak in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge .
history
On September 22nd, 1784 the trader and navigator Grigori Ivanovich Schelichow founded the first Russian settlement in Alaska in this bay. The bay and the settlement was named after one of his ships.
In 1792 the settlement was abandoned and moved to the site of today's Kodiak after it was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami .
On February 23, 1972, Three Saints Bay was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an archaeological site . Since June 2, 1978 it has the status of a National Historic Landmark .
See also
Web links
- Three Saints Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- National Historic Landmarks Program: Three Saints Bay Site
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas L. Purvis: A Dictionary of American History (= Blackwell History Dictionaries ). 1st edition. Wiley, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 1-57718-099-2 , pp. 9 (English, 464 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Three Saints Site in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 27, 2017
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Alaska. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.