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Great; lake, near Nortlieast point, Ht. Paul island, Bering sea. Ho c-alled by Elliott 



in 1874. 

 Great Bend; local name for an ox bow in the Kuskokwim river, near longitude i 



lnS°, ol)tained by Spurr and Post from missionary J. H. Kilbuck in 1898, 

 Great Bering; glai-ier, west of Icy bay, in the St. Elias alpine region. So named 



by Seton-Karr in 1886. 

 Great Sitkin; island (5,033 feet high), between Atka and Adak, Andreanof group, 



middle Aleutians. Native name from the earliest Russian explorers. 



Called Great Sitkin to distinguish it from Little Sitkin, near Kiska. Has 



been written Seetien, Sigdak, Sitchin, Sitchini, Tschechina, Tsetchina, etc. 



Lutke calls it Eastern Sitkin, while Dall calls it Sitkin or Great Net island. 

 Great Streiki, bay; see Big Branch. 

 Greely; point, on the mainland, in Taku inlet, southeastern Alaska. So named by 



Mansfield, in 1890, after Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, U. S. A. 



Erroneously Greeley. 

 Green; creek, tributary to Seventymile creek, from the south. Local name from 



Barnard in 1898. 

 Green; island, in Port Frederick, Icy strait, Alexander archipelago. So named by i 



United States naval officers in 1880. 

 Green; islands, northwest of Montague island, in Prince William sound. So named 



in May, 1778, by Cook, who found them "Low, free from snow, and cov- 

 ered with wood and verdure." Also called lies Vertes. Nikolai island 



of Russian Hydrographic chart 1378 (ed. of 1847). 

 Green; islets (at high water), on eastern shore of Portland canal, southeastern 



Alaska. So named by Pender in 1868. 

 Green; point, on Lindenberg peninsula, Wrangell strait, Alexander archipelago. ' 



Apparently so named by Dall in Coast Pilot, 1883. It is point Meli (shoal) > 



of Lindenberg in 1838. i 



Green; point, on the mainland, a little south of the mouth of the Stikine river. I 



Named Zelenoi (green) , in 1863, by the Russian surveying party, under 



Commander Ba.sargin, on the steamer Rynda. Has been called Zelonoi, 



Zelony, and Green. The name is descriptive. 

 Green; point, on the northeastern shore of Hemlock island. Port Chester, Annette '< 



island, Alexander archipelago. Name published by the Coast Survey in j 



1876. 

 Green; ridge, of wooded hills (about 1,300 feet high), near Cape Fox, Dixon 



entrance. Named by Nichols in 1888. I 



Green; point, the northern point of entrance to Pyramid harbor, Chilkat inlet, Lynn ' 



canal, southeastern Alaska. Named Zelenoi (green) by Lindenberg in i 



1838. It is Indian point of Meade, in 1869, and Pyramid point of Beardslee i 



in 1880. j 



Green; rocks, between Island and Rock points, Wrangell strait, Alexander archi- i 



pelago. Named Zelenoi (green) by Lindenberg in 1838. Meade, in 1869, ! 



called them Fairway rocks. ! 



Greenhorn; mountains, east of Mount Bendeleben and north of Golofnin sound, 



Seward peninsula. Local name, published in 1900. 

 Greenough; mountain (4,800 feet high), in extreme northeastern Alaska. So 



named by Franklin in 1826. 

 Grecjo, point; see Cangrejo (crab). 

 Greig-; cape, on the north shore of Alaska peninsula, at the mouth of Ugashik 



river. Named by Lutke, in 1828, after Admiral Greig, of the Russian 



navy. Variously written Greigh, Grey, etc. I 



Greig; mountain (6,500 feet high), in the Tordrillo range, between the Kuskokwiix^ 



and Skwentna rivers. So named by Spurr and Post in 1898. Errom " 



ously Creig. 



