| 词条 | Isanotski Strait |
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The strait is used by most vessels that are less than {{convert|200|ft|m}} in length, when traveling between northern Alaska and points in southwestern and southeastern Alaska and the "lower 48" states.[4] The city of False Pass, Alaska is situated on Isanotski Strait.[5] GeographyIsanotski Strait and Ikatan Bay separate the Alaska Peninsula from Unimak Island, the first of the Aleutian Islands. Isanotski Strait has its southerly entrance at the northwest end of Ikatan Bay. Traders Cove, on the eastern side of Isanotski Strait about 7 miles above its entrance from Ikatan Bay, is a good anchorage. Morzhovoi, a mission and native village, is on the south side. The northern entrance, has strong tidal currents, which are affected by strong northerly or southerly winds. There is a very extensive shoal, or flat, in the northern and widest portion of the strait, lying to the eastward of the channel way and southward of the outlet into Bering Sea. Just outside this outlet, at a distance of between {{convert|1|-|2|miles}}, is a line of shoals, with breakers, which extend from the northeast point of Unimak Island in a northeasterly direction for {{convert|5|-|6|miles}} parallel with the coast.[5] The mean rise and fall of tides in Ikatan Bay is 4.5 feet. In the narrow southern part of Isanotski Strait the tidal currents have a velocity of 7 to 9 miles or more, and it is said that there is practically no slack and that the current turns about three hours after high or low water in Ikatan Bay.[6] HistoryThis strait was used for safe passage for millennia by Aleuts and later by the Russians during their colonization of the area in Russian America.[4] In the 1900s it was used by light-draft craft built in Puget Sound ports for service on the Yukon River, in making the passage from Puget Sound ports to St. Michael.[4] It was the practice for these vessels to go through the inland passages of Southeast Alaska, out through Cross Sound, and coast around, watching the weather, going behind the islands off the Alaska Peninsula and through Isanotski Strait or Unimak Pass. Isanotski Strait was preferable to Unimak Pass for light-draft river vessels because it was nearer and had many sheltered anchorages and places where fresh water could be obtained. References1. ^Vilbrekht, A.: Karta morskikh otkrytīi Rosīiskimi moreplavateliami na Tikhom i Ledovitom moriakh, 1802, Norris Peter Co., Washington, D.C., 1898, L.C. 2. ^Karta Ledovitago moria i Vostochnago okeana, Hydrographic Department, St. Petersburg?, 1844, L.C. 3. ^Baker, Marcus: Geographic Dictionary of Alaska, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 299, Series F, Geography 52, Second Edition, USGPO, Washington, 1906 4. ^1 2 {{cite book | first=Lydia | last=Black | authorlink=Lydia T. Black | year=1999 | title=The History and Ethnohistory of the Aleutians East Borough, Chapter 4: False Pass, An Ethnography, by Lydia Black & Jerry Jacka |publisher=Limestone Press |location=Fairbanks, Alaska }} 5. ^1 {{cite book|author1=U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey|last2=Jarvis|first2=D. H.|title=Alaska: Coast Pilot Notes on the Fox Islands Passes, Unalaska Bay, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean as Far as Point Barrow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYMQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14|edition=Public domain|year=1900|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=14–}} 6. ^{{cite book|author1=U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey|last2=Graves|first2=Herbert Cornelius|title=United States Coast Pilot: Alaska. Part II. Yakutat Bay to Arctic Ocean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvoxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA191|edition=Public domain|year=1916|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=191–}}
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