Yakutat Bay

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title: Yakutat Bay
text: Yakutat Bay is a 29-km-wide (18 mi) bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Yuri Lisyansky in 1805. Yakutat Bay was the epicenter of two major earthquakes on September 10, 1899, a magnitude 7.4 foreshock and a magnitude 8.0 main shock, 37 minutes apart. The Shelikhov-Golikov company, under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, founded a settlement in Yakutat
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description: Bay in Alaska, US
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date modified: 2024-01-08T19:32:04Z
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