Description
Vasilief Bank is located at N entrance to Redboubt Bay, 7 mi. SW of Sitka, Alex. Arch
History
Named "Podrodnaya banka Vasileva," meaning "Vasilev's submerged bank," in 1809 by the Russians; published by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), RIN. It was probably named for the navigator Ivan Vasiliev the first, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), who made surveys in this vicinity in 1809.