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Chakwa; hay, or cove in Hood bay, Chatham strait. Native name, first mentioned 

 l)y Captain Rowan, of the ship Eliza, in 1799. Has been called Chaqne 

 bay and Chaqne cove. See also Cha-ik. 



Chalit; Eskimo village, of about 60 people in 1878, on left bank of the Kuguklik 

 river, northwest of Kuskokwim bay. Visited by Nelson in December, 

 1878, and its name reported by him to be Chalitmiut, i. e., Chalit people. 



Chaliuknak. An Aleut village bearing this name existed, in 1790, on the northern 

 shore ot Beaver bay, Unalaska, eastern Aleutians. 



Chaljchnikikaljdun. Grewingk following Wosnesenski, 1840, gives this string of 

 letters as the native name of a small stream on Kenai jjeninsula debouch- 

 ing a little south of the Kaknu river, Cook inlet. Perhaj^s it sounds like 

 Kal-ik-nik-ik-al-is-lun. 



Chalmers; port, in Montague island. Prince William sound. Named Chalmer's 

 harbour by Portlock in 1787. 



Chahekahin, river; see Kicking Horse. 



Chamisso; island (231 feet high), in Kotzebue sound, at entrance to Eschscholtz 

 bay. So named by Kotzebue, in 1816, after Dr. Louis Adelbert von 

 Chamisso, who accompanied him during his explorations here. The 

 native name, according to Beechey, 1827, is E-ow-ick. 



Champion; creek, tributary to Fortymile creek, from the east, near latitude 64° 30^. 

 Local name, reported by Barnard in 1898. 



Chandtk, river; see Klondike. 



Chandlar; lake, and river tributary to the Yukon, from the north, near the Arctic 

 circle. Locally known as the Chandlar and said to be named after John 

 Chandlar, a factor of the Hudson Bay Company. Has also been called 

 Gens de Large. Apparently identical with Achenchik river of Raymond, 

 1869, and Petrof, 1880, and with Tadrandike of recent Coast Survey maps. 



Chandos; point, the eastern point of entrance to Yarboro inlet, on the Arctic coast, 

 east of Colville river. So named by Franklin in 1826. 



Chankliut; island, near Chignik bay, south shore of Alaska laeninsula. Native 

 name, from the Russians. Has been written Chankluit. 



Channel; island, in Howkan strait, Cordova bay, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 by Nichols in 1881. They appear like two islands, but are connected by 

 a sand spit. Rev. Sheldon Jackson has named the northern part Sheldon 

 island and the southern Jackson island. 



Channel; island, in Tongass narrows, near Ward cove, Alexander archipelago. Pre- 

 sumably so named by pilot Capt. W. E. George, about 1880. Descriptive 

 term. 



Channel; islands, in Behm canal, near Walker cove, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by the Coast Survey in 1891. 



Channel; rocks, in Kakul narrows, Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 by Coghlan in 1884. Descriptive term. Have been called indiscrimi- 

 nately islets and rocks. 



Channel; jioint, in Kootznahoo inlet, Admiralty island, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named by Meade in 1869. Descriptive term. 



Channel; rock, in entrance to Hassler harbor, Annette island, Alexander archipelago. 

 So named by Nichols in 1882. Descriptive term. 



Channel; rock, in middle of the entrance to the western anchorage, Sitka harbor. 

 So named by Beardslee in 1880. Descriptive term. 



Channel; rock, in entrance to St. Paul harbor, Kodiak. Named by the Coast Survey 

 in 1869. Descri])tive name. 



Chapeau; mountain (2,000 feet high), a spur of Davison mountain, east of Tamgas 

 harbor, Annette island, Alexander archipelago. Named by Nichols in 

 1883. 



