Incomplete record - should be at least 106 maps, LATLONGs truncated in PH I by GIPSY - 9512. 270 mi. wide at mouth, extends E from Bering Sea, between Cape Newenham on N and Alaska Peninsula and Unimak I. on S.
Named in 1778 by Captain James Cook, Royal Navy (RN), "in honour (sic) of the Admiral Earl of Bristol (England)."