Three Saints Bay is a 9 miles (14 km)-long inlet on the southeast side of Kodiak Island in southern Alaska, North of Sitkalidak Strait.[3] It is 97 km (60 mi) southwest of Kodiak.
Three Saints Bay Site, also known as AHRS SITE KOD 124, is an archaeological site which presumably is on the inlet.
The bay was the site of the first Russian settlement in Alaska in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov. The bay and settlement were named after one of his ships.
The settlement of Three Saints Bay was moved to the site of present-day Kodiak, Alaska, in 1792 when an earthquake and tidal wave destroyed it.
The archaeological site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.[2]
[edit] Etymology
The name derived from Three Saints Harbor and reported by Petroff in the 10th Censusin 1880, 1893, p. 32). Called "Z(aliv) Lyakhik" or "Lyakhik Bay" by Capt. Tebenkov (1852, map 23). Baker (1906, p. 625) transliterated the Russian spelling of this Aleut name as "Liakik," "perhaps from liak, the Aleut name for the black-footed goose." R. H. Geoghegan (notes) suggests "Liakik", "may by dual form of laq, blackfoot goose-pair of geese."[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b "Three Saints Bay Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1298&ResourceType=Site. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- ^ a b "Three Saints Bay". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1410908. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
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