Information About

Kirilof Bay

Quick Facts

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Location

51 ° 25' 5.002" N,
179 ° 15' 24.001" E

Region

Aleutians West (CA)

Nearest City

Adak

Kirilof Bay in Detail.

About

1 mi. NW of Constantine Harbor, on Bering Sea coast of Amchitka I., Rat Islands.; Aleutian Islands.

History

Russian name given by the navigator Ingenstrem in 1830. Captain Lutke (1836, p. 324), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), called it "Kirilovskaia," as did Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 30), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).