Information About

Nelson Lagoon

Quick Facts

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Location

55 ° 59' 8.002" N,
161 ° 5' 34.001" W

Region

Aleutians East

Nearest City

Chignik

Nelson Lagoon in Detail.

About

20 mi. W of village of Port Moller, on Alaska Peninsula, Bristol Bay Low.

History

Named in 1882 by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), for Edward William Nelson, U.S. Signal Service, who explored the Yukon Delta region in 1877-81.