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Akwi; glacial Htrcani in tlie St. Elias alps debouching between the Alsek delta and 

 Yakutat l)ay. .So called by Tebenkof in 1849. Apparently a native name. 

 See Akoi. 



Alachs-chak, peninsula; see Alaska. 



Ahii'kaa, peninsula; see' Alaska. 



Alag-anik; native village at mouth of the Copper river. Called by its native name, 

 Alagnak and Alaganik, by Serebrenikof in 1848. Allen, who, visited its 

 site in 1885, calls it Alaganik ( Anahanuk), and thinks the site has been 

 moved. A place near by is called Skatalis by the natives. This, Allen 

 thought, was the site of Serebrenikof s Alaganik. 



Alaganik; slough, one ot the passes through the delta of the Copper river. Name 

 from Schrader and (lerdizie, 1900. 



Alai; moinitain, on the southern shore of Alaska peninsula south of Becharof lake. 

 Apparently a native name from Vasilief, 1831-32, who wrote it Alai. Has 

 been variously written Alay, Olai, Olav, and Otai. 



Alaid; island (818 feet high), the westernmost of the Semichi islands, western 

 Aleutians. So named by the Kussians from its resemblance to Alaid 

 island, one of the Kuril islands, near Cape Lopatka and sometimes called 

 Little Alaid, presumably to distinguish it from that island. The whale- 

 men call it Alida. Grewingk says Alaid or Herzfels (German) = Serdtse, 

 Kamen (Russian), Heart Rock or Navel of Alaid (Alaidskaia pupka). 



Ahtksd, cape; see Kabuch point. 



Aldkshak, peninsula and territory; see Alaska. 



Aldkm, territory; see Alaska. 



Alamos, Punta de los; see Poplar. 



Alanzo, point; see Alonzo. 



Al(n-f/ak'-all(i, rock; see Sheer-off-there. 



AhiKca, territory; see Alaska. 



Alasdika, peninsula and territory; see Alaska. 



Alash.uk; river, tributary to the Koyukuk, from the north, opposite Waite island, 

 near longitude 154° 30'. Has been written Allashook and Alloshook. 

 Apparently identical with Batzakakat river of Allen in 1885. See Batza. 



Alaska, Gulf of; this name has for the last t-yo or three decades been applied to 

 that part of the North Pacific ocean lying, approximately, to the north of 

 a line from Sitka to Kodiak. 



Alaska; ])eak, on the mainland west of Farragut bay, southeastern Alaska. So 

 named l)y Thomas in 1887. 



Alaska; peninsula stretching from southwestern Alaska southwestward to the Aleu- 

 tian islands. 

 Lutke, 1836, wrote it Aliaska and adds "Some write it Aliaksa. We follow 

 the orthography generally adopted in the colonies. The natives pro- 

 nounce it Aliakskha." 

 Veniaminof says "Aliaksa or Aliaska, by the Aleuts called Alakskak." 

 Cook, 1778 (II, 504) says, "I have already observed that the American con- 

 tinent is here called by the Russians, as well as by the islanders, Alaschka; 

 which name, though it properly belong only to the country adjoining to 

 Oonemak, is used by them when speaking of the American continent in 

 general, which they know perfectly well to be a great land." 

 Berg, 1823, calls it the Aliaksa peninsula (pp. 43-44, 66). 

 Grewingk, 1849, says the usual designation jjf the peninsula in the Russian 

 American colonies is Alaeksa, and adds as variant forms, Aljaksa, Aljaska, 

 Aliiska and in Aleut, Alachs-chak (p. 116). 

 Dall, 1870, says the natives of Unalaska told the earliest Russian explorers of 

 a great land to the eastward which they called Al-dk-shak or Al-dy-ek-sa 

 (p. 529). 



