Other Names
Yakutat Bay has had various names.
- It has been called "Bering Bay", on the assumption that Vitus Bering visited it in 1741.
- 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, looking for the Northwest Passage.
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