Yakutat Bay
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | Mainland North America | |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 42 ′ N , 139 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| width | 29 km | |
| depth | 40 km | |
| Islands | Knight Island , Khantaak Island , Kriwoi Island | |
| Tributaries | from Disenchantment Bay , from Malaspina Lake , Grand Wash River | |
 Map of Yakutat Bay |
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The Yakutat Bay is a 29-km wide bay in the US state of Alaska , in the north-east by the Disenchantment Bay , in the south west by the Gulf of Alaska .
Yakutat is Tlingit , Yaakwdáat, and means “the place where the canoes rest”, as Yuri Lisianski reported in 1805. Perhaps it was originally an eyak word whose meaning has been lost.
Jean-François de La Pérouse visited the bay around 1786 and named it "Baie de Monti" after one of his officers. In the same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named the place "Admiralty Bay". The Spaniards called him "Almirantazgo". It has also been called "Bering Bay" on the assumption that Vitus Bering visited it in 1741.
Yakutat Bay was shaken on September 10, 1899 by an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale .
