Information About

Saint Catherine Cove

Quick Facts

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Location

55 ° 1' 21" N,
163 ° 30' 2.002" W

Region

Aleutians East

Nearest City

False Pass

Saint Catherine Cove in Detail.

About

NE part of Bechovin Bay, 12 mi. NW of False Pass, in NE coast of Unimak I., Aleutian Islands.

History

Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1882 for Captain Lieutenant P. K. Krenitzin's vessel, the galiot St. Catherine, in which he spent the winter of 1768-69 in Isanotski Strait (Coxe, 1787, p. 208).