Alaska Gazetteer
Phoenix Bay is a physical feature (bay) in Kodiak Island Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Phoenix Bay |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Bay |
| Description: | on E shore of Perenosa Bay, on N coast of Afognak I., N of Kodiak I. |
| History: | Named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1932 for the vessel Phoenix. This ship was the first one built in northwestern America, by James Shields, an Englishman in the Russian Navy, under the direction of Alexander Baranov, of the Skelikov Company, in 1794 (Bancroft, 1886, p. 329-331). |
| Borough: | Kodiak Island Borough |
| Latitude: | 58.4172210693 |
| Longitude: | -152.322494507 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Phoenix Bay: Phoenix Bay.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Phoenix Bay does not include property ownership information.
| Port William, AK (10.8 miles WNW) |
