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Fort Iiiscum; military post, Port Yaldes, Prince William sound. 



Fort Morton; see Alorton. mR 



Fort Nicholas^, Cook inlet; see Kenai. j^ 



Fort Reliance; post, an old trading post of the Hudson Bay Company, now in 

 ruins, on the east bank of the Yukon, a few miles below Dawson, Canada. 



/'<)/•/ -sy. Michael; see St. Michael. 



Fort Selkirk; Canadian military headquarters, at mouth of the Lewes river. The 

 site of the old fort of the Hudson Bay Company is on the opposite bank 

 of the river. This name has been adopted by the Canadian Board on 

 Geographic Names. 



Fort Tongass. A military post of the United States known as Fort Tongass was j 

 maintained on Tongass island, from June 1868 to September 1870. Fort 

 Tongass was the official spelling. Variously called Fort Tongas, Fort i 

 Tomgas, etc. [ 



Fort Wrangell; post-office, established in OctoVjer, 1895, at Wrangell. ^ 



Fort Wrangdl; see Wrangell. 



Fort Yukon; fort and trading post, established by McMurray, of the Hudson Bay 

 Company, in 18-17, on the supposition, it may be assumed, that it was in 

 British territory. The boundary line between the British and Russian | 

 possessions had been agreed upon in 1825, but the line had not been 

 marked on the ground. Shortly after Alaska had been acquired by the ' 

 United States, Lieut, (now Col. ) C. W. Raymond, United States Engineers, 

 ascended the river and determined the longitude of this post, which was 

 found to be on American territory. 



Fortuna, island; see Klokachef. , 



Fortuna; strait, separating Chichagof island from Klokachef .island, Alexander 

 archipelago. Has also been called a passage or channel. Named by the 

 Russians. The Sjianish schooner Forttma, with seven natives of the 

 Hawaiian islands on board, was found ashore here and taken by the 

 Russian American Company's vessels as a prize in 1819. The name has 

 doubtless come from this circumstance. 



Fortymile; creek, tributary to the Yukon, from the west, near latitude 6-1° Sty, 

 Prospectors' name, given, presumably, by prospectors, in 1886, when gold 

 was first found here. It takes this name from being about 40 miles below 

 old Fort Reliance. It was called Cone Hill river by Schwatka, in 1883, 

 "from a conspicuous conical hill in its valley." The Canadian Board on 

 Geographic Names has adopted the name Fortymile. 



Fortymile; mining camp, at the mouth of Fortymile creek, near latitude 64° 30^, 

 It was started in 1893. 



Fortymile; trail, from Fortymile creek to the Tanana river. Local name. 



Fortymile Dome; peak (3,900 feet high), in the Fortymile mining region, near the 

 international boundary. It is Dome peak of some maps and Fortymile 

 Dome of others. 



Foster; creek, tributary to Camp creek, from the west, Seward peninsula. Name 

 from Barnard, 1900. 



Foster, creek; see Pine. 



Foster; glacier, on the mainland, near the head of Taku inlet, southeastern Alaska. 

 Named, in 1890, by the Coast Survey, after Hon. Charles Foster, Secretary 

 of the Treasury. 



Foul; passage, in Peril strait, near the Southern rapids. Descriptive name, given by 

 Coghlan in 1884. 



Found; island, in Ernest sound, at the mouth of Zimovia strait, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by Snc v in 1886. 



