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Kizhuyak Bay

Kizhuyak Bay

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extends SW 20 mi. off Marmot Bay, E of Whale I., on N coast of Kodiak I.; Kodiak I.

History of Kizhuyak Bay

native name published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 23), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as "B(ukhta) Kizhuyak," or "Kizhuyak Bay." "Z(aliv) Shakhmanova ili Bukhta Kizhuyakskaya," "Shakmanor or Kizhuyak Bay,; given in 1839 or 1840 by Sub Lieutenant Murashev, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), and published in 1849 on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart. 1425.