Port Moller, Alaska
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Port Moller ( Sugpiaq: ''Putmaaluq'') is an unincorporated community in the
Aleutians East Borough Aleutians East Borough () is a 2nd class List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census the borough's population was 3,420. The borough seat is Sand Point, Alas ...
, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is named after the bay of the same name, which was in turn named for the sloop Moller, used by Captain M.N. Staniukovich, of Captain
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke Friedrich Benjamin Graf von Lütke (russian: Фёдор Петро́вич Ли́тке, Fyodor Petrovich Litke; – ), more commonly known by his Russian name Fyodor Litke, was a German-Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He ...
's expedition, to explore the bay in 1828.


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