Description
Bechevin Bay is located between Unimak I. and Alaska Peninsula, at SW end of Aleutian Range. 8 miles wide.
History
Named "Betchevinskoi" by Captain Lutke (1836, p. 296), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), for the merchant, Bechevin, of Irkutsk, Siberia, who "dispatched in 1760 the largest vessel hitherto sent to the Aleutian Islands * * *," the Gavril (Bancroft, 1886, p. 122). The Russian Hydrographic Dept. included this feature in its application of the name "Pr(oliv) Isannakhskiy" (Isanotski Strait) published in 1847 on Chart 1379. In 1882 the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) published the name "Bitchevinskoi".