Silver Bay, or Gaǥeit', in the Tlingit

Tlingit language

The Tlingit language ) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada. It is a branch of the Na-Dené language family. Tlingit is very endangered, with fewer than 140 native speakers still living, all of whom are bilingual or near-bilingual in English...

 language, is a deep water fjord located southeast of Sitka

Sitka City and Borough, Alaska

The City and Borough of Sitka, originally called New Archangel under Russian Rule, is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean , in the U.S...

, Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

, USA, that indents Baranof Island

Baranof Island

Baranof Island, also sometimes called Baranov Island, Shee or Sitka Island, is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name Baranof was given in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U. F. Lisianski to honor Alexander Andreyevich Baranov...

. It was named through a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey translation of Bukhta Serebryanikova, a name published first by Captain Tebenkov

Mikhail Tebenkov

Mikhail Dmitriyevich Tebenkov, spelt Tebenkof in the United States , was a Russian hydrographer and vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy...

 of the Imperial Russian Navy

Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Tsarist fleets prior to the February Revolution.-First Romanovs:Under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, construction of the first three-masted ship, actually built within Russia, was completed in 1636. It was built in Balakhna by Danish shipbuilders from Holstein...

 in 1852.

Economic significance

Silver Bay is on the eastern end of Eastern Channel

Eastern Channel

Eastern Channel is a body of deep water adjacent to the southern half of Sitka, Alaska. It is the best suited of three channels for large ships to approach harbor in Sitka....

 and currently is the site of a prospective deep water dock for the City of Sitka at the Sawmill Cove Industrial Park. It is an access point for the Medvejie Fish Hatchery. It was the site, and provided access to, several mining claims in the early 1900s.

Geology

It receives drainage from Medvejie Lake

Medvejie Lake

Medvejie Lake is a long, narrow, snow-fed lake on Baranof Island just south of Sitka, Alaska in the Alaskan Panhandle, which drains into Silver Bay, southeast of Sitka, on west coast of Baranof Island, Alexander Archipelago.- Etymology :...

, Blue Lake

Blue Lake (Alaska)

Blue Lake, or Gajook Héen Yik.áayi, in the Tlingit language, is a long reservoir located east of the town of Sitka, on the west side of Baranof Island, in Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska.-History:...

, Salmon Lake

Salmon Lake

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, the Vodopad River through Green Lake

Green Lake (Alaska)

Green Lake, or Gageit' Tá, is a lake/reservoir south of Sitka, Alaska. It is fed by the Vodopad River and outflows into Silver Bay.Green Lake serves as home to several pens to the Medvejie Fish Hatchery....

, and Camp Lake

Camp Lake (Alaska)

Camp Lake is a small snow-melt and rain-fed lake that feeds into the Blue Lake watershed on Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaskan Panhandle. Camp Lake is a popular destination for the first night on the Baranof Cross-Island Trail due to its surrounding alpine meadow and the...

. It follows a fault system that runs from Salisbury Sound

Salisbury Sound

Salisbury Sound is a sound between the north shore of Kruzof Island and the southwestern end of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska...

, through Olga and Neva straits and over Mt. Verstovia.