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East; ledge, east of Keene island, on Mitkof shore of Wrangell strait, Alexander 

 archipelago. So called by Nichols in the Coast Pilot, 1891. 



East; peak (1,406 feet high), near Chichagof harbor, Attn island, western Aleu- 

 tians. 8() named by Gibson in July, 1855. 



East; peak (4,900 feet high), near Valdes, Prince William sound. Named l)y 

 Abercroinbie in 1898. 



East; point, between Freshwater bay and Tenakee passage, on the eastern coast of 

 Chichagof island, Alexander archipelago. The name was applied by 

 Meade in 1869 to the eastern ])ointof entrance to Freshwater bay. Neither 

 of these names, East and Freshwater, has its original application. 



East; point, in the eastern part of Whitewater bay, Admiralty island, Chatham 

 strait, Alexander archipelago. Named by Glass in 1881. 



East; i;oint, on the eastern shore of Portage bay, Kupreanof island, Alexander 

 archipelago. Named by Nichols in 1882. 



East; point, on the eastern shore of Woronkofski island, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named by Snow in 1886. 



East; point, on the southeastern shore of Kittiwake island, Kodiak group. Named 

 Vostochnie (east) by Murashef, 1839-40. It is Uskosti (narrow) of the 

 Russian American Company map of 1849. 



East; point, the eastern point of entrance to Chernofski harbor, Unalaska. So 

 named by the Fish Commission in 1888. 



East; spit, at the south end of Cleveland passage, Frederick sound, Alexander 

 archipelago. Apparently so named by Nichols in 1891. 



East, cape; see Eagle. 



East Anchor; cove indenting the eastern shore of Ikatan island (or peninsula), near 

 southern entrance to Isanotski strait, Unimak island. Named by the Fish 

 Commission in 1888. 



East Clump ; "a small high-water islet ' ' in Tongass narrows, ' ' called by the pilots 

 East Clump." Dall, in the Coast Pilot (1883, p. 80), calls it Seat island, 

 and says it is so named from a conspicuous and peculiar seat-shaped rock 

 at its outer end. 



East Devil; rock or reef, bare at low water, in Dixon entrance, 4 miles northwest 

 of Zayas island. Named by Dall in 1883. Prior to that date a sunken 

 rock of doubtful position had been called Devil rock, a name suggesting 

 the sailor's state of mind as to sunken rocks. In 1883 Capt. James Car- 

 roll, in the Idaho, found another sunken reef farther west, and this was 

 called by Dall West Devil rock. 



East Foreland; "steep, cliffy point" near the head of Cook inlet, so named by 

 Vancouver in 1794. Wosnesenski, about 1840, according to Grewingk, 

 calls it East cape and gives its native name as ]\Iikischkin or Tuchan Tan 

 (tan meaning cape), and a nearby stream is called Kantiitschike. Russian 

 Hydrographic chart 1378 (ed. of 1847) calls it East or Katiushkin cape. 



Eastern; anchorage, between the Mission buildings and northern entrance to Mid- 

 dle channel, Sitka harbor, Sitka sound. Old descriptive name. 



Eastern; channel, leading into Sitka harbor, Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named Vostochnie (eastern) by the Russians. 



EaMern, ocean; see Bering sea and Pacific ocean. 



Eastern; passage, ])etween the northern part of Wrangell island and the mainland, 

 Alexander archipelago. So named by Dall in 1877. 



Eastern; passage, leading from Glacier bay to ]\Iuir inlet, southeastern Alaska. 

 Has been called East pass. Origin of n^ne not discovered. 



Eastern; point, the easternmost point of Krestof island, Sitka sound, Alexander 

 archipelago. Apparently so named by Dall in the Coast Pilot, 1883. 



Eastern, ahoal; see Southeast. 



