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Amlia; island (1,900 feet high), the easternmost of the principal islands of the 

 Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. Native name, from Tolstyk, 1761, 

 who wn.te it Amlak. Has also been written Amlii, Amli, Amlja, Amlya, 

 Amlag, Amluk, etc. The southern part of Atka island has been called the 

 Amlia peninsula. 



Aiiiiitiik, point; sec Aspid. 



Amnuk; island, in Bering sea, mentioned by Beechey (p. 563). Location unde- 

 termined. 



AiiiokiKik, island; see Amaknak. 



Amoukhta, island; see Amukta. 



Amtagis; islet, or group of islets, off the southern shore of Atka, middle Aleutians. 

 Native name, from Tebenkof, 1849. 



Amtdtka, island; see Amchitka. 



Amtchitka, island; see Amchitka. 



Amlscliithi, island; see Amchitka. 



Amugul; bay, indenting the southern shore of Beaver bay, Unalaska, eastern 

 Aleutians. Aleut name from Sarichef, 1792. Veniaminof callsit Amugulik. 

 Perhaps from the Aleut word Anmk (lightning). Into it flow two small 

 streams. One of these is doubtless the Amagul creek of Langsdorf (II, 28). 



Amnkta; volcanic island (3,738 feet high), forming the westernmost of the group 

 of islands of the Four Mountains as classified by Veniaminof. Native 

 name, from the earliest Russians. Coxe, 1780, writes it Amuckta and 

 Amukta, taking the name from Krenitzin and Levashef, 1768. Variously 

 written Anoghta, Amoukhta, etc. 



Amukta; pass, about 40 miles wide, in the Aleutian islands, between Amukta island 

 on the east and Seguam island on the west, near the one hundred and 

 seventy-second meridian of west longitude and known to the whalers as 

 the Seventy-Second Pass. 



Amy Iianding; place on the Klutina river about 6 miles below the outlet of Klutina 

 lake, where the river enters The Gorge. So named by Abercrombie in 

 1898, after W. S. Amy of Copper Center. 



Anagaksik; islet, south of Great Sitkin, Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. 

 Aleut name, from Tebenkof, 1849. Has also been written Anagakhsikh. 



Anagnak; Eskimo village near mouth of AYood river, a little above the head of 

 Nushagak bay. Native name, from Petrof, 1880. 



Anah&nuk, village; see Alaganik. 



Anaiaktak, islands; see Geese. 



Anaiuliak, islet; see Ananiuliak. 



Anakotik, creek; see Anikovik. 



Anan; bay, south of Blake island, indenting the southern shore of Bradfield canal, 

 Alexander archipelago. So called by Snow in 1886. Written An-An on 

 plats in General Land Office. Name wrongly placed on C. S. chart 8200. 



Anannkeik, island; see Dolgoi. 



Anaritptsik, islands; see Gareloi. 



Ananiuliak; islet, near the northwestern shore of Umnak, eastern Aleutians. Native 

 name, from Veniaminof. Lutke wrote it Anangouliak and Kuritzien 

 Anaiuliak. 



Anavinguk; river, tributary to the Togiak river, from the east, near Togiak lake. 

 Native name, reported by Post, of the Geological Survey, in 1898, who 

 writes it Anavinguk. Tebenkof, 1849, calls it Anvaniek. 



Anayachtalik, village; see Aiaktalik. 



Ancav; see Ankau. 



Anchor; cove, indenting the shore of Admiralty island, near north end of Stephens 

 l)assage, Alexander archipelago. So named by Coghlan in 1884. 



