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Catton; iioiut, on the Arctic coast, near llcrschel island. So named l)y Franklin 

 in ISL'H. Erroneously Calton. 



Caution; island, on the northern shore of Redoubt bay, Sitka sound, Alexander 

 archipelago. Named Berezhnoi (cautious) by Vasilief in 1809. 



Caution; point, the southern point of entrance to Whitewater bay, Adniiralt>' island, 

 Chatliam strait, Alexander archipelago. So named by Meade in LStiVI. 

 This name is erroneously transferred to another point, farther south, on 

 British Admiralty chart 2431. 



Cave; point, the southwestern head of Oksenof bay, on western coa.st of Uniniak 

 island, eastern Aleutians. Named Shishkova (Shishkof's) by Lutke in 

 1828, who wrote it in French Chichkoff. Veniaminof calls this Pogromnoi 

 second, and the next one west from Sarichef he calls Pogromnoi first. 

 Tebenkof gives Pogromnoi as an alternate name, the cape l)eing near 

 Pogromnoi volcano. The Fish Commission, in 1890, called it Cave point, 

 taking the name from Samuel Applegate who reports it as local usage. 

 "Cave point takes its name from a cave on its face." 



Cave; rock, on Amaknak island. Captains bay, Unalaska. Under it is a burial cave 

 which Pall investigated in 1872-73, and which he has called Amaknak 

 cave. 



Cauiaskdkdl, river; see Kautas. 



Cayman; point, in North bay, Tlevak strait, Dall island, Alexander ar(;hipelago. 

 So named by Dall, in 1882, from its fancied resemblance to an alligator's 

 head. 



Cedar; bight, indenting the northern shore of Hawkins island. Prince William 

 sound. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1900. 



Cedar; bight, in Security bay, Kuiu island, Alexander archipelago. Named by 

 Meade in 1869. 



Cedar; cove, in Freshwater bay, Chichagof island, Chatham strait, Alexander 

 archipelago. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1899. 



Cedar; island, in Security bay, Kuiu island, Alexander archipelago. So named l)y 

 Meade in 1869. 



Cedar; point, in Kootznahoo archipelago. Admiralty island, Alexander archipel- 

 ago. So named by Meade in 1869. 



Cedar; point, near the entrance to Security bay, Kuiu island, Alexander archipel- 

 ago. So named by Meade in 1869. 



Cedar; point, the northern head of Snuiggler cove, Annette island, Alexander 

 archipelago. So named by Nichols in 1883. 



C'elenic, lake; see Selenie. 



Cenotaph; island, in Lituya bay. So named by La Perouse in memory of 26 

 officers and men, constituting two of his boats' crews, who were caught 

 in the bore or boiling ebb tide at the entrance to Lituya bay and drowned 

 July 13, 1786. A cenotaph then erected on the southeastern end of this 

 island to commemorate the event was sought for by a Coast Survey jnirty, 

 in 1874, and no trace of it found. The island has since been called Egg 

 (Yaichnoi) by the Russians. 



Cenotaph; point, the southeastern extreme of Cenotaph island above, where the 

 cenotaph was erected. So named by Dall in 1874. 



Center; creek, tributary to Snake river, from the north, in the Nome mining 

 region, Seward peninsula. Local name, published in 1900. Has also 

 been called Wonder creek. 



Center; island, in Dewey anchorage, Clarence strait, southwestern coast of Etolin 

 island, Alexander archipelago. So named by Snow in 1886. Descriptive 

 term. 



Center; island, in the southern entrance to Wales passage, Portland canal. Named 

 bv the Coast Survev in 1891. The island lies in the middle of the entrance. 



