Information About

Northwest Harbor

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Northwest Harbor on The Map

Location

55 ° 3' 32" N,
159 ° 24' 42.001" W

Region

Aleutians East

Nearest City

Chignik

Northwest Harbor in Detail.

About

on N coast of Little Koniuji I., in Shumagin Is., Aleutian Range

History

Local name published on an 1888 US@C&GS chart. Possibly the same bay called by the Aleut Agughum udda meaning bay of the creator, or God's bay, according to Father Veniaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 263).