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Fritz Cove is a bay on the northwestern coast of Douglas Island in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States.〔U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. ''United States Coast Pilot: Alaska, Part I: Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay, Sixth Edition'', p. 158. Government Printing Office: Washington, 1917.〕 Lying in Stephens Passage, it is northwest of the city of Juneau. Historically, Fritz Cove was used for fishing by Alaska Natives, especially the Auke people. A summer camp named Aangoox̱a Yé was located at the mouth of Fish Creek.〔Goldschmidt, Walter R., and Haas, Theodore H. ''Haa Aaní, Our Land: Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use''. Sealaska Corporation, 1998.〕 Scottish-American naturalist John Muir camped at the bay on November 10, 1879.〔Muir, John; Engberg, Robert (ed.); and Merrell, Bruce (ed.) ''Letters from Alaska''. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, Wisconsin, 1993.〕 The area was surveyed by the USS ''Jamestown'' in 1880;〔''Annual Report of the Hydrographic Office for the Fiscal Year 1924.'' Government Printing Office: Washington, 1924.〕〔(U.S.S. Jamestown Warship and Her Personnel, 1880 and 1881 ). Alaska Trails to the Past. Accessed June 23, 2010.〕 Lieutenant F. M. Symonds named the bay after his son. The name was first published by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1881, collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1981, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981.〔(USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Fritz Cove ). Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 Fritz Cove and Gastineau Channel became linked in 1960 through a United States Army Corps of Engineers effort to dredge a navigation route. Streams flowing into Fritz Cove include Cove Creek,〔(USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Cove Creek ). Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 Elevenmile Creek,〔(USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Elevenmile Creek ). Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 and Fish Creek.〔(USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Fish Creek ). Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 Islands in the bay include Spuhn Island.〔(USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Spuhn Island ). Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 Depths in the bay range from .〔U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. ''Table of Depths for Channels and Harbors'', p. 117. Government Printing Office: Washington, 1913.〕 Dungeness crabs,〔Stone, Robert P., and O'Clair, Charles E. "Behavior of Female Dungeness Crabs, ''Cancer magister'', in a Glacial Southeast Alaska Estuary: Homing, Brooding-Site Fidelity, Seasonal Movements, and Habitat Use". ''Journal of Crustacean Biology''. May 2002.〕 Tanner crabs,〔Stone, Robert P. ''Alaska Fishery Research Bulletin'', Volume 6, No. 1. Summer 1999. Accessed July 23, 2010.〕 and king salmon live in the cove; molting of the male Tanner crabs in the cove has been documented since the 1970s. Scoters, grebes, mergansers, and marbled murrelets can also be seen in the area. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fritz Cove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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