Spafarief Bay

Spafarief Bay

Spafarief Bay is a bay in the Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of Alaska. Its size is 15 mi. across. There is a lagoon at its southern end.

The Spafarief Bay is located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, 10 mi. north of the mining town of Candle; Kotzebue-Kobuk Low. coord|66|05|N|161|50|W|region:US.

Spafarief Bay was named in 1816 by Lt. Otto von Kotzebue, of the Imperial Russian Navy after Russian Major General knight Leontiy Spafaryev (1765-1847), Director of the Russian Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty. [ [http://www.vobam.se/spafarieff.htm L. Spafarieff or Spafariev] ]

The Inuit name of this bay has not been reported.

References

* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:15845223094965297813::NO::P3_FID:1414039 Description and location]


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