Information About

Otkriti Bay

Quick Facts

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Location

52 ° 23' 40.999" N,
173 ° 34' 18.001" E

Region

Aleutians West (CA)

Nearest City

Atka

Otkriti Bay in Detail.

About

on S coast of Agattu I., Aleutian Islands.

History

Descriptive Russian name, "Otkrytyy", meaning "open", and possibly taken from the nautical term "Otkryed", meaning "open roadstead." This name was proposed by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office as "Atkritoi Bay" in 1938. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approved the form "Otkriti" and it was published in the 1944 Aleutian Coast Pilot as "Otkviti (Gannon) Bay" (p. 136).