For other places with the same name, see Surveyor Bay (disambiguation).

Surveyor Bay is a bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 in 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...

 in the United States

United States

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Surveyor Bay is located at Latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

 53°15'41" North, Longitude

Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds, and denoted by the Greek letter lambda ....

 167°34'2" West (or in decimal degrees Latitude 53.26139, Longitude -167.56722) and is on the southeast coast of Unalaska Island

Unalaska Island

Unalaska is an island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska, at . The island has a land area of . The city of Unalaska, Alaska, covers part of the island and all of neighboring Amaknak Island where the Port of Dutch Harbor is located...

, one of the Aleutian Islands. It lies on the west side of Cape Aiak, and is about four nautical miles (7.4 kilometers) wide and two nautical miles (3.7 km) deep at its head.

Politically, the bay lies in Alaskas Aleutians West Census Area, a part of the Unorganized Borough

Unorganized Borough

The Unorganized Borough is the part of the U.S. state of Alaska not contained in any of its 18 organized boroughs. It encompasses more than half of Alaska's area, , an area larger than any other US state...

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The bay was named for a survey ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Surveyor

USC&GS Surveyor (1917)

The first USC&GS Surveyor was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1917 and from 1919 to 1956.-Construction:...

, which spent her career operating almost exclusively in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from 1919 to 1956.