Silver Bay, or Gaǥeit', in the

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located southeast of

Sitka russian: Ситка , native_name_lang = tli , settlement_type = Consolidated city-borough , image_skyline = File:Sitka 84 Elev 135.jpg , image_caption = Downtown Sitka in 1984 , image_size ...

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, United States, that indents

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. It was named through a

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translation of Bukhta Serebryanikova, a name published first by Captain Tebenkov of the

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in 1852.

Economic significance

Silver Bay is on the eastern end of Eastern Channel and currently is the site of a prospective deep water dock for the City of Sitka at the

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. It is an access point for the Medvejie Fish Hatchery. It was the site, and provided access to, several mining claims in the early 1900s.

Geology

It receives drainage from Medvejie Lake,

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, Salmon Lake, the Vodopad River through Green Lake, and Camp Lake. It follows a fault system that runs from

Salisbury Sound Salisbury Sound is a sound between the north shore of Kruzof Island and the southwestern end of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. It is about 40 km (25 mi) northwest of the city of Sitka, and within the l ...

, through Olga and Neva straits and over Mt. Verstovia.

References

Bays of Alaska Bodies of water of Sitka, Alaska {{SitkaAK-geo-stub