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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 Lisianski 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.〔(Historic Earthquakes: Yakutat Bay, Alaska - September 10, 1899 ) from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards website〕 The Shelikhov-Golikov company, precursor of the Russian-American Company, under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, settled Yakutat Bay in 1795.〔 It was known as New Russia, Yakutat Colony, or Slavorossiya. ==Other names== Yakutat Bay has had various names. *James Cook called it "Bering Bay".〔Khlebnikov, K.T., 1973, Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America, Kingston: The Limestone Press, ISBN 0919642500〕 *Jean-François de La Pérouse, who visited it in 1786, named it "Baie de Monti" for one of his officers. *The same year, Captain Nathaniel Portlock named it "Admiralty Bay" *the Spanish called it "Almirantazgo." *It was also called Port Mulgrave when Alessandro Malaspina and José de Bustamante y Guerra sailed into the bay,〔(Filipino American History Timeline: 1791 ) from the Alaska Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society〕 looking for the Northwest Passage. 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「Yakutat Bay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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