Bai-Bak. 



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Baikron; creek, tributary to Kanektok river, from the north, near its northernmost 

 bend. Native name (i)ronouneed By-kron), obtained l)y Spnrr and Tost, 

 of the Geolofrieal Survey, who passed its mouth September 5, 1898. 



Bailey; bay, indentiii-,' tlie mainland north of Revillagigedo island, Behm canal, 

 Alexander archipelafio. So named by Dall, in 1879, in the Coast Pilot 

 (p. 7:i). Erroneously Baily. 



Bailey; liarbor, in nortbern ])art of Belkofski bay, Alaska peninsula. Surveyed by 

 ('apt. (ieorfxe W. Bailey, U. S. R. M., in 1879, and named after him by the 

 Revenue-Marine Service. Captain Bailey was lost overboard on the 

 return voyage to San Francisco, October 16, 1879. 



Bailey; sunken ledge, off Obernoi point. Port Levashef, Captains bay, Unalaska. 

 Shown on the earliest charts, then omitted and rediscovered in 1872 by 

 Silvanus Bailey, mate of the Coast Survey schooner Humboldt, for whom 

 it is named. 



Bainbridge; peak (.3,467 feet high), on the mainland, near Thomas bay, Frederick 

 sound. So named by Thomas, in 1887, presumably after Commodore 

 William P.ainbridge, U. S. N. 



Bainbridge; port, at extreme southwestern corner of Prince William sound. So 

 named by Vancouver in 1794. 



Baird; hank, off the northern shore of Alaska peninsula. Named by the Fish Com- 

 mission, in 1890, after Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Baird; canyon, tributary to Copper river from the west, just north of Miles glacier. 

 So named by Allen, in 1885, after Prof. Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Baird; glacier, at head of Thomas bay, southeastern Alaska. So named by Thomas, 

 in 1887, after Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Baird; glacier, near headwaters of Lowe river, about 25 miles east of Valdes. So 

 named })y the Geological Survey after a prospector who, in the spring of 

 1898, lost his life while exploring it. 



Baird; inlet, on the western coast of Alaska, northeast of Nunivak. So named by 

 Petrof, in 1880, after Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Baird; mountain, near Mt. Augusta, St. Elias alps, southeastern Alaska. So named 

 b}' Russell, in 1890, after Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian IiLstitution. 



Baird; peak (8,260 feet high), on the northeastern coast of Prince of Wales island, 

 Alexander archipelago. So named by Snow in 1886. 



Baituk; creek, in western end of Seward peninsula, debouching a few miles south- 

 east of Cape Prince of Wales. Eskimo name, which has been written 

 Bituk and Botuk. Pronounced Bye-took. Name published by the Coast 

 Survey in 1900. 



Bajo Pamplona; see Pamplona. 



Baker; creek, tributary to INIiddle fork of the Koyukuk, from the north, near longi- 

 tude 150°. So named by prospectors in 1899. Has 'also been called 

 Nelson creek. 



Baker; creek, tributary to Tanana river, right bank, about 60 miles above moiith of 

 latter, near longitude 151°. So named by Allen in 1885. Apparently 

 identical with Saklekageta of Petrof, 1880. 



Baker; inlet, in Kasaan bay. Prince of Wales island, Alexander archipelago. This 

 name was given by Dall, in 1880, to a supposed iidet indenting the south- 

 ern shore of Kasaan bay. When Clover surveyed Kasaan bay, in 1885, 

 and found the inlet did not exist he applied the name to a point near by. 



