Ice usually leaves Ulban Bay by mid- or late June, but in some years may remain until August.

The flood current generally sets to the southwest, while the ebb flows in the opposite direction.

[5] On 9 July 1855, the ship Washington (340 tons), of Sag Harbor, was damaged by ice and run ashore, being sold at auction for $400 — the wreck was still visible in October.

[6] Russian schooners and boat crews from Mamga also cruised for bowheads in the bay from 1865 to 1871.

[9] In July 2011, an endangered North Pacific right whale was photographed in the bay – which is considered a vagrant to the region.