BAKER] 233 Kat— Kay. 



Katmai; bay, indenting the northern shore of SheHkof strait. Native nanu>, from 

 Vasilief, 1831-32; written Katmai and Katmaiskoi. 



Katmai; creek, tributary to Katmai l)ay, Shelikof strait. Native name. 



Katmai; village, on Katmai bay, Shelikof strait, northwest of Kodiak. This is one 

 of the most important of the native villages. Population in 18S0, 218; in 

 1890, 132. 



Katnu; river, debouching on the northwestern shore of Cook inlet, immediately 

 west of the "West Foreland. Native name, from the Russians. 



Katrina; river, tributary to the White, from the west, in latitude 63°. This name 

 has been adopted by the Canadian Board on Geographic Names. It is 

 apparently an accidental corruption of the native word Katsina, published 

 by the Coast Survey in 1890. Katrina is reported to be the local usage. 



Katfichadilrh. The Krause brothers, 1882, report this to be the native name of a 

 river tributary, from the west, to the upper waters of the Chilkat river. 



Katschin, river; see Katzehin. 



KulncJibthin, river; see Chilkoot. 



Ktitxi'hi]iin, river; see Kicking Horse. 



Katselina; river, tributary to the Co])per river, from the east, a little north of the 

 Chitina river. Native name, from Abercrombie, 1898, who writes it 

 Katselena. 



Katsina, river; see Katrina. 



Katz; island, one of the Galankin group, Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by United States naval officers in 1880, after Ensign Edward M. 

 Katz, IT. S. N. 



Katzehin; river, on the mainland, tributary to Chilkoot inlet, from the east, south- 

 eastern Alaska. Native name, variously written Chkazehin (Krause), 

 Katsehin (Coast Survey), and, by error, Katschin. Apparently it is 

 Katz-hini, i. e., Katz river. 



Kaualka. One of the Shumagin islands, not identified, is called Kaouakhta by Lutke, 

 who in turn obtained this name from Veniaminof . Veniaminof ' s notes, 1840, 

 has the form Kauatka, meaning "long, narrow, andivUh some stony places." 



Kautas; river, draining from a lake, northward to the Koyukuk river, near longitude 

 157°. Native name, from Allen, 1885, who wrote it Cawtaskukat, i. e., 

 Kautas river. 



Kavalga; island, one of the westernmost of the Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. 

 Aleut name, from the Russians. Lutke and others write it Kakhvalga, 

 but Tebenkof has Kavalga. Erroneously Ravalga. 



Karlaiak, bay; see Clarence, port. 



Kaviak; Eskimo village, between Golofnin bay and Port Clarence. Called Kaviaga- 

 mute on the map and Kaviazagamute in the text of the Tenth Census l)y 

 Petrof, in 1880, who reports the population to be 200. Kaviazagemut of 

 Dall and the Coast Survey in 1869. Near it many maps, since 1869, show 

 a river called Kaviavazak, a name said to be now unknown locally. 



Kaviruk; swampy tract and small river at head of Imuruk basin, east of Grantley 

 harbor, Seward peninsula. An Eskimo word, apparently from some of 

 the Franklin search parties about 1850, and spelled Cov-vee-arak. Has 

 also been written Covearak. Billings, 1790, shows a river here called 

 Kauveren on his chart and Ka-ooveren in his text. On a Russian chart 

 of 1802 it is called Kvuveren. 



Kayak; cape, the eastern head of Protection harbor, on south coast of Unalaska, 

 eastern Aleutians. So called by Tebenkof, in 1849, perhaps from a real or 

 fancied resemblance to the native skin boat called l-mak. Called Moun- 

 tain cape by the Fish Commission in 1888. 



Kayak; group of islets, at the southwestern end of the Galankin group, Sitka 

 sound, Alexander archipelago. So named by Vasilief in 1809. Kayak is 



