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High; ]"'int. bctwoen Port Tongass aii.l Nakat inU't, soatheaPtern Alaska. So 

 iiaiiic<l by Nichols in 1883. 



High; iMiiiil. ..ii Dall island, Tlevak strait, Cordova ])ay, Alexander an-hipelago. 

 So named by Nichols in 1881. 



Jllijli. i.oint, on left bank of the Ghilkat river, al)out 10 miles above its mouth. 

 Named Vie.sokie (high) by Linden])erg in 1838. The name is obsolete. 

 The place seems to be identical with Chilkat peak (4,000 feet high) of 

 United States Hydrographic chart 883. 



High; rock (123 feet high), near the easternmost jjoint of Chngnl island, eastern 

 Aleutians. So called, apparently, by the United States North Pacific 

 Exploring Expedition in 1855. 



High; rock, off the southeastern coast of Amukta island, eastern Aleutians. So 

 called by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1855. 



High; rock, off the southwestern end of Near island, Chiniak bay, Kodiak. Named 

 Mesokoi (high) by the early Russians. It may be identical with Inner 

 Himipback ; see Inner Humijliack. 



Highfield; anchorage, off the north end of Wrangell island, Alexander archipelago. 

 Surveyed, in 1862, l)y F. O. Simpson, master H.^l. H. Devastation, and by 

 him called Anchorage off Point Highfield. Meade, 1869, calls it Point 

 Highfield harbor, while the Hudson Bay traders called it Labouchere bay 

 or anchorage, after the steamer Labouchere. 



Highfi.eld; point, the northernmost point of Wrangell island, Alexander archipelago. 

 So named by Vancouver in 1793. 



Highland; point, on the mainland on the northern shore of Frederick sound, 

 Alexander archipelago. Descriptive name given by Meade in 1869. 



HigJi liix-k, Sitka sound ; see Viesoki. 



Highwater; islet, in Neva strait, near St. John Baptist bay, Alexander archipel- 

 ago. So named by Coghlan in 1884. At low water it is not an inlet. 



Hijosa, Isla de ; see Middleton. 



Hilda; creek, tributary to North fork of Fortymile creek, from the east. Pros- 

 pectors' name, from Barnard in 1898. 



Hilda; i:)oint, on the southern shore of Douglas island, Stephens passage, Alexander 

 archipelago. So called by the Coast Survey in 1890. 



Hilgard; mountain (1,500 feet high), near Sanborn harbor, Nagai island, Shumagin 

 group. So called by Dall, in 1872, after Julius Erasmus Hilgard, after- 

 wards Superintendent of the Coast Survey. 



Hill; island, at entrance to Portloek harbor, Chichagof island, Alexander archii)el- 

 ago. Named Hills by Portloek in 1787. 



Hill, islets; see McFarland. 



Hinchinbrook; cape, the southwestern point of Hinchinbrook island. Prince 

 William sound. Named, in 1778, by Cook Avho spells it Hinchingbroke in 

 his text and Hinchinbrook on his chart. This name, with several varia- 

 tions of spelling, wa-s used by Dixon, Meares, Portloek, and Vancouver. 

 Tebenkof calls it ^lorskoi (ocean) cape. 



Hinchinbrook; island, in I'rince William sound. So called ])y Vancouver in 1794. 

 It is Rose island of Meares and Portloek, 1787-88, and Islade la IMagdalena 

 of the Sjjaniards in 1791. Tebenkof uses the native name Khtagaliuk or 

 Khta-ahik, according to Petrof, while an old Russian chart of 1802 has 

 Tkhalka, which has a manuscript French rendering of Tchalka. Aber- 

 crombie, in 1898, calls it Nuckek island. 



Hindasclukee, village; see Gan-le-gas-tak-heh. 



Hines; glacial stream, debouching immediately west of the western mouth of the 

 Alsek river, southeastern Alaska. So called by Tebenkof in 1849. Appar- 

 ently a native word, pronounced Hc-nes. 



