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Fon— For. 



Fontaine; island, in Shakan bay, Prince of Wales archipelago. So named by Helm 

 in 1886; has also been Avritten Fontain. 



Food, bay; see Agamgik. 



Fools; inlet, indenting the southern shore of Wrangell island, and opening into 

 Ernest sound, Alexander archipelago. So named by Snow in 1886. 



Fools; point, on the western shore of Portland canal. Apparently so named by the 

 Coast Survey in 1891. 



Foot; island, in Steamboat bay, Frederick sound, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 by Mansfield in 1889. 



Foot; island, Prince William sound. See Latouehe. 



Foote; peak (5,176 feet high), on the mainland, nearThoma.s bay, Frederick sound, 

 southeastern Alaska. Named by Thomas, in 1887, after Rear-Admiral 

 Andrew Hull Foote, U. S. N. 



Ford; cove, on the eastern shore of Portland canal. Named Ford's by the Coast 

 Survey, in 1891, after Harry L. Ford. 



Fords Terror; narrow inlet, on the northern shore of Endicott arm, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. It i.s very narrow at one point. Floating ice from glaciers, with 

 falling tide, jamming in this contracted throat, make it a dangerous place. 

 Named by Mansfield, in 1889, after Harry L. Ford, a member of his party. 



Forrest, cape; see Icy point. 



Forrester; island, off the southwestern coast of Prince of Wales archipelago. So 

 named by Dixon in July, 1787. Perez, in 1774, called it Santa Cristina, 

 which is also written in the journal of his voyage Santa Christina and 

 Santa Catalina (Banc. Hist., vol. 33, pp. 196, 201). Douglas in August, 

 1788, named it Douglas island (3Ieares, p. 327); Maurelle, 1775, called it 

 San Carlos island. This name was published in Barrington's Miscellanies 

 in 1781. La Perouse, 1786, called this island and Wolf Rock the San 

 Carlos islands. Vancouver adopted Forrester, and this name has been 

 adopted and used for a century, to the exclusion of all others. 



Fort; point, on the northern shore of Tongass island, Tongass harbor, eastern part 

 of Dixon entrance. So named by Nichols in 1891. 



Fort; point, the north point of entrance to Steamboat bay, Frederick sound, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Mansfield in 1889. 



Fort Adams. An American trading station was established on the north bank of 

 the Yukon, at the mouth of the Tozi river, in 1868 or 1869, and called 

 Fort Adams. The place is still so called. St. James Mission is at this place. 



Fort Alexander; see Nushagak. 



Fortaleza; point, in Bucareli bay. Prince of Wales archipelago. Named Punta de 

 la Forteleza (fortitude) by Maurelle and Quadra in 1775-1779. 



Fort Archangel Gabriel, Baranof island; see Sitka. 



Fort Cosmos; trading post, on the Kowak river, near longitude 157°. Local name, 

 published in 1900. 



Fort Cuduhy; see Cudahy. 



Fort Davis; military postal mouth of Snake river,' near Nome, Seward peninsula. 

 Established in 1899. 



Fort Egbert; military post, at Eagle, on the upper Yukon, near the international 

 boundary. Established and so named by the War Department in 1889. 



Fort Gibbon; military post and reservation, on north bank of the Yukon, at mouth 

 of the Tanana river. Named after Gen. John Gibbon, U. S. A. 



Fort Hamilton; village, in the Yukon delta, on right bank of the Apoon pass, 

 about 25 miles above its mouth. Called Nunapithlugak or Fort Hamilton 

 ]jy the Coast Survey in 1899. 



Fort Hamlin; station or post, on the south bank of the Yukon, near longitude 

 1 149°. Local name, published by the Coast Survey in 1897. 



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