t)7') [HULL. 187. 



Low; i...iMt, ..M .•a.t .i.le of Portage Lay, Alaska peninsula. Name published by the 

 H vdroLTaphic Offire in March, 1893. 



Lowe- point an.l river, on the north shore of Port Valdes, Prince William sound. .^ 

 ' Named by Abcrcrombie, in 1898, after Lieut. Percival G. Lowe, U. S. A., 

 a lueinber of his party. 



Lowenstern; cape, tlie eastern point of entrance to Shishmaref inlet, Seward pen- 

 iusiila, .\rctic ocean. Named Liwenstern by Kotzebue in August, 1816. 



Lower- lake, near 8t. Paul, Kodiak, draining to Shahafka cove. Called Dolgoi 

 ' (long) by the Russians, in 1808-1810, but byTebenkof, 1849, called Nizhni 

 ( lower) . 



/.,.((■,/• K'>,,izwih(>(>, bav; see Whitewater. 



Lower Ramparts; gorge, in tbe Yukon river, between the mouths of the Dall and 

 Tanana rivers! Apparently so called by Dall in 1884. See also Ramparts. 



Lower Ramparts; gorge or canyon in the Porcupine river, about 75 miles above 

 F..rt Ynkon. So called by the Coast Survey in 1895. 



Lowrie; island, near Forrester island, off the west coast of Prince of Wales archi- 

 pelago. So named by Dall, in 1879, after Captain Lowrie, of the snow 

 Captain (hok, in 1786, who was perhaps the first English-speaking navi- 

 gator to visit Queen Charlotte islands, and i^ossibly the first who saw this 

 island. 



L'inuii, bay; see Lituya. ;; 



iJiifi, l)ay; see Lituya. 



Lucan; i)oint, the western point of entrance into Port Althorp, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by Vancouver in 1794. See also Column. 



Luce; island, one of the Kutchuma group, Sitka sound, Alexander archii)elago. 

 So named by United States naval oflicers, in 1880, after a Mr. Luce, 

 employed on the Jamestown at Sitka in that year. See also Emgeten. 



Lucia; glacier, northwest of Yakutat bay, in the St. Elias alps, southeastern Alaska. 

 So named by Mark Brickell Kerr in 1890, after his mother. 



Lucile; small lake, about 10 miles north of Knik arm, Cook inlet. So named by 

 Glenn in 1898. Written Lucile on his map and Lucille in his text. 



Luck; point, on Prince of Wales island, Clarence strait, Alexander archipelago. 

 So named by Snow in 1886. 



Lucky Strike; creek, tributary to Bluestone river, from the north, Seward i)enin- 

 sula. Name from Barnard, 1900. 



Lukanin; open bay, on the southern shore of St. Paul island, Pribilof gruup, Bering 

 sea. Usually written Lukannon. Elliott says it derives its name from 

 "one Lukannon, a pioneer Russian, who distinguished himself with one 

 Kaiecov, a countryman, by capturing a large number of sea-otters at that 

 point, and on Ottter island, in 1787-88." Petrof (Banc. Hist., p. 183) says 

 that Ivan Lukanin was the peredovchik (senior officer) with Ismailof. 



Lnkcm's Fort; see Kolmakof. 



Lull; p(jint, the northern point of entrance to Kelp bay, Chatham stfait, Alexander 

 archipelago. Named by Dall, in 1883, after Capt. Edward Pheli)s Lull, 

 U. S. N., hydrographic inspector of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Lulu; peak, in southern part of the St. Elias alps, southeastern Alaska. Name 

 liu))lished by the Coast Survey in 1889. 



Lung; island, near the south end of Duncan canal, Kupreanof island, Alexander 



archipelago. So named by Thomas in 1887. 

 Lnmioi, island; see Liesnoi. 



Lutke; cape, the southern head of Unimak bay on south shore of Unimak island, 

 twitern Aleutians. Veniaminof, 1831, calls this Siuchi (sealion) and is 

 followed ])y Tebenkof (1849). The Russian Hydrographic charts (1847) 

 call it Lutke, while the Fish Commission (1888) calls it Promontory. 



