Togiak Bay is an 18-mile-long (30 km)

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

in the

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

. It extends southwest from the

Togiak River Togiak River (Yup'ik: ''Tuyuryaq'') is a stream, long, in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins at Togiak Lake in the Togiak Wilderness and flows southwest to Togiak Bay, east of Togiak, Alaska, Togiak. Large catches of s ...

Hagemeister Island Hagemeister Island (russian: Остров Гагемейстера) is an uninhabited island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay. The island is long, has a land area of , and its ...

and east 25 miles (40 km) from

Tongue Point Saltcreeksunset

Tongue Point is an area of the Salt Creek Recreation Ar ...

to the mouth of the Negukthlik River.

History

During the 1930s, Togiak Bay was identified by

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from

Goodnews Bay Goodnews Bay ( esu, Mamterat) is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 243, up from 230 in 2000. Geography Goodnews Bay is located on the north shore of Goodnews Bay at the mou ...

as an area possibly containing ores. More than 3,000 claims had apparently been made there by September 1937. During the 1990s, the bay had the richest

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in Alaska. It was open to the public for fishing.

References

Bays of Alaska Bodies of water of Dillingham Census Area, Alaska {{DillinghamAK-geo-stub