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Chenega Bay, Alaska
Chenega Bay is a town located in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, on Crab Bay on Evans Island along Prince William Sound. The town has about 80 inhabitants, largely consisting of Chugach Alutiq Native Americans.
Chenega Bay was established in 1984 as the result of a search for a place for former residents of Chenega, Alaska to live in. Chenega was largely destroyed in 1964 by a tsunami from the Alaska Earthquake, which killed 1/3 of the 68 people who then lived there.
In 1982, one family moved to Evans Island and between 1984 and 1991 about 26 other families migrated to Chenega Bay. As not all the residents moved to Chenega Bay, old Chenega still exists as a village.
The population of Chenega Bay suffered economically following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, as it killed much of the marine life around Evans Island.
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