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.
Read more about this topic: Yakutat Bay
Famous quotes containing the word names:
“The pangs of conscience, where are the pangs of conscience? Orestes and Clytemnestra, Reinhold doesn’t even know the names of those fine folk. He simply hopes, heartily and sincerely, that Franz is dead as a doornail and won’t be found.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“The world is never the same as it was.... And that’s as it should be. Every generation has the obligation to make the preceding generation irrelevant. It happens in little ways: no longer knowing the names of bands or even recognizing their sounds of music; no longer implicitly understanding life’s rules: wearing plaid Bermuda shorts to the grocery and not giving it another thought.”
—Jim Shahin (20th century)