Three Saints Bay, Alaska

Infobox_nrhp | name =Three Saints Bay Site
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
nearest_city= Old Harbor, Alaska
locmapin = Alaska
lat_degrees=57 |lat_minutes=8 |lat_seconds=57 |lat_direction=N
long_degrees=153 |long_minutes=29 |long_seconds=17 |long_direction=W
area =
built =1784
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= June 02, 1978cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1298&ResourceType=Site
title=Three Saints Bay Site |accessdate=2008-01-04|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = February 23, 1972cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
refnum=72001541 Three Saints Bay is a Convert|9|mi|km-long inlet on the southeast side of Kodiak Island in southern Alaska, North off of Sitkalidak Strait.Cite gnis|1410908|Three Saints Bay (Kodiak Island, Alaska)] It is 97 km (60 miles) 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.

Etymology

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."

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