Description
Bear Bay is located in Peril Strait, 3 mi. N of Fish Bay, on Baranof I., 28 mi. N of Sitka; Alex. Arch. 0.2 mile wide.
History
named in 1884 by Commander J. B. Coghlan, U.S. Navy (USN), and published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 182).