BAKER.] 75 Anc— And. 



Anchor; mountain near Naas river, Portland inlet. So named by the British 

 Admiralty. 



Anchor; pas.«age, in Behm canal, between Bell island and the mainland, Alexander 

 archipelago. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1894. Has also 

 been called Anchorage pass. 



Anchor; point, in Wrangeli strait, Mitkof island, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 by Meade in 1869. 



Anchor; point, on the ea.stern shore of Cook inlet. So named, in 1778, by Cook, 

 who lost an anchor here. Also called Laidennoj (icy), Jakorny (anchor), 

 and Kasnatchin, a native name. 



Anchorage; bay, about 12 miles from Tuliumnit point, indenting the southern 

 shore of Chignik bay, Alaska peninsula. It is the anchoring place for all 

 the canneries in Chignik bay. Local name, published by the Coast 

 Survey in 1899. 



Anchorage; cove, in American bay, Kaigani strait, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by Call in 1882. 



Anchorage ; cove, in and near the mouth of Lituya bay, southeastern Alaska. So 

 called by Dall in the Coast Pilot, 1883 (p. 203). 



Anchorage; point, on Hamilton island in Shakan bay, Sumner strait, Alexander 

 archipelago. Local name, pubUshed in the Coast Pilot, 1883. 



Anchorage; point, the southern point of entrance to Pyramid harbor, Chilkat inlet, 

 Lynn canal, southeastern Alaska. Named Anchorage (Yakorni) by Lin- 

 denberg in 1838. It is Sandy point of Meade in 1869. 



Ancon; peak (3,300 feet high), on "Woronkofski island, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named by Snow, in 1886, after the steamship Ancon. 



Ancon; rock, at entrance to Glacier bay, Cross sound, southeastern Alaska. Named 

 in 1891 or earlier after the S. S. Ancon. 



Ancon, creek; see Ankau. 



Anderson; bay, indenting the western shore of Makushin bay, Unalaska, eastern 

 Aleutians. So named bj* the Fish Commission in 1888. Its native name, 

 says Veniamii if, 1840, is Iksiaktak (? burning). It is, at its head, divided 

 into two arn.^, the southern one called Udamak and the northern one 

 Naginak (sick). 



Anderson, cape; see Northeast. 



Anderson, island; see St. Lawrence. 



Anderson; sunken rock, south of Sannak island. So called by the Fish Commis- 

 sion in 1888. 



Andreafski; fort or stockaded post established by the Kussians on the right bank 

 of the Yukon, near the head of the delta, in or about 1853. In August, 

 1855, the natives killed its two inmates. It has been variously written 

 Andreafski, Andreaivsky, Andreievsky, i. e., Andrew's, etc. The place 

 appears on the latest maps as Old Andreafski, and Andreafski appears at a 

 new site 5 miles farther up the river. 



Andreafski, river; see Clear. ' 



Andreanof; group of islands in the middle of the Aleutian chain, extending from 

 Seguam pass on the east to (but not including) Amchitka on the west. 

 These islands were first explored by Andreian Tolstyk with Peter Vasiut- 

 kin and Maxim Lazaref in 1761. Tolstyk owned the vessel which is 

 usually called the Andreian and Natalia. Berg calls it the Adrian and 

 Natalia (p. 53); Coxe, the St. Andrean and Natalia (p. 155), and Dall the 

 Andrean and Nathalia (p. 302). 

 Coxe says: "The first certain account was brought by this vessel, the S?. 

 Andrean and Natalia, from whence they are called the Andreauoffskie 

 ostrova, or the islands of it. Andrean" (p. 155). 



