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Last Chance; creek, just south of Tort Clarence, Seward peninsula. Name from 

 Harnard, litOO. 



Last Chance; creek, tributary to the Snake river, from the west, Seward peninsula. 

 Name from Barnard, 1900. 



Last Chance; creek, tributary to the Yukon, from the east, near Eagle. Pros- 

 pectors' name, published by the Geological Survey in 1899. 



Last Timber; cape, on the southern shore of Raspberry island, Kujjreanof strait, 

 Kodiak grouj). The des(Tiptive name Posliednaho liesy (last of the 

 woods) was given by Murashef in 1889-40. 



Late; jjoint, the south jioint of Windfall island, Seymour canal, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by Mansfield in 1889. 



Latouche; island, in the southwestern part of Prince William sound. So called by 

 \'ancouver in his atlas, 1798. Portlock, 1787, called it Foot island, pos- 

 sibly from a fancied resemblance to a human foot. The native name is 

 reported to be Klikaklik or Klikaklit, also spelled Khlikakhlik. 



Latouche; ])oint, the eastern point of entrance to Disenchantment bay, Yakutat 

 bay, southeastern Alaska. Named Latouche by Puget, of Vancouver's 

 party, in 1794. It was called Punta de la Esperanza (hope point) by 

 Alalaspina, in 1791, perhaps in allusion to his hope of here finding the 

 famous Northwest passage. 



Lauder; ])oint, the southern point of entrance to Whale bay, Baranof island, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Dixon in 1787. Has also been called 

 South point. 



Lauf ; islands, in Rodman bay, Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. So named liy 

 Moore in 1895. 



Launch; cove, at Southern rapids. Peril strait, Baranof Lsland, Alexander arcliip( 1- 

 ago. So called by Coghlan in 1884. 



Laura; mountain (7,527 feet high), on the mainland, east of the Stikine river. 

 Name published by the Coast Survey in 1895. 



Luurmla , (;reek; see Moss. 



Lava; islet, near Kruzof island, in entrance to Sitka sound, Alexander archii)elago. 

 ■^o na'.ned by Vasilief in 1809. 



Lavinia; point, on the northwestern shore of Chichagof island, Cross sound, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Vancouver in 1794. 



Lay; point, on the Arctic coast, between Cape Lisburne and Icy cape. So named by 

 Beechey, in 1826, after George Tradescant Lay, the naturalist of his expe- 

 dition. On Tikhmenief's map this is called Sloistie (in layers). 



Lazaref ; cape, on the southeastern shore of Unimak island, eastern Aleutians. So 

 named by Lutke, in 1828, who says that Kudiakof, in 1791, reported its 

 native name as Touliouliaga. 



Lazaro; mountain (1,767 feet high), on the south end of Duke island, Dixon entrance. 

 Named St. Lazaro by Douglas in June, 1789. Usage has shortened the 

 name to Lazaro. 



Leader; island, in the entrance to Ivanof bay, Alaska peninsula. Named Provoclnik 

 (leader) by Woronkofski in 1837. 



Leading; point, on Prince of Whales island, in southeastern part of Cordova bay, 

 Alexander archipelago. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1899. 



Liit(l'(ii<i, point; see Harrison. 



Leadville; mountain (1,797 feet high), near Port Chester, Annette island, Alexander 

 archipelago. So named by Nichols in 1883. 



League; j)oint, on the mainland, Stephens passage, Alexander archiiielago. So 

 named by Meade in 1868. 



Leather, village; see Koserefski. 



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