Pavlof Bay is an

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In ma ...

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...

located on the southwestern edge of the

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. It is on the

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's south coast, is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) long, and lies directly north of the Pavlof Islands. The 8,261-foot (2,518-meter)

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Mount Pavlof is on its western shore.''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition'', p. 910.

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*''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. . Bays of Alaska Bodies of water of Aleutians East Borough, Alaska {{AleutiansEastAK-geo-stub