Eschscholtz Bay
Eschscholtz Bay is an arm of Kotzebue Sound, on the Chukchi Sea-facing coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is only eleven miles wide.
It is located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, 45 miles southwest of Selawik, Kotzebue-Kobuk Low.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Eschscholtz Bay was discovered and named in 1816 by Lt. Otto von Kotzebue after his ship's physician, Dr. Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.[1]
The Inuit name of this bay has not been reported, but it was a traditional beluga hunting ground for the local people of the area.
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