Description
Chiniak Bay is located on NE coast of Kodiak I., 14 miles wide.
History
Aleut name published as "Zaliv Chiniatskiy" or "Chiniat Bay" by Sarichev (1826, map 16). Baker (1906, p. 179) wrote, "* * * Chiniak is Aleut for a rocky, impassable, wretched sea." According to R. H. Geoghegan, "the name comes from the Aleut 'Chingaq,' which I do not interpret as a rocky, impassable, wretched sea."