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Sarana Bay is an
inlet An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, 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 ...
on the east coast of the island of Attu in the
Aleutian Islands The Aleutian Islands ( ; ; , "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi language, Chukchi ''aliat'', or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before Alaska Purchase, 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain ...
in
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.''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition'', p. 1054; Morison, p. 45. Hodikof Island is a small, 160 m long island in the bay. The seaward extension of Hodikof Island is known as Hodikof Reef.


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*''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. . *Morison, Samuel Eliot. ''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume Seven: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944''. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Landforms of the Aleutian Islands Bodies of water of Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska Bays of Alaska Attu Island {{AleutiansWestAK-geo-stub