.KEu.] 285 Miid-raii. 



(Midway; island, northeast of Saiinak. So called hy the Coast Survey in 1900. It 



is apparently identical with Hague Rock of the Fish Commission, 1890. 

 Midway; islands, between Holkhambay and Port Snettisham, in Stephens passage, 

 Alexander archipelago. So named by Meade in 1869. These islands were 

 reserved for light-liouse purposes by Executive order dated January 4, 

 1901. 

 Midway; islands, on the Arctic coast, east of the mouth of Colville river. So named 

 by SttM'kton, in 1889, from the circumstance that they are about midway 

 between Lion reef proper and Return reef. 

 Midway; point, on Glass peninsula, Stephens passage, Alexander archipelago. So 



named by Manstield in 1889. 

 Midway; reef, at the eastern entrance to Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. So 



named by Call in the Coast Pilot (1883, p. 167;. 

 Midway; rock (awash at highest water), in southern part of Wrangell strait, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. Descriptive name, given by Meade in 1869. Linden- 

 berg, in 1838, called it Polivnoi (awash). 

 Midway; rock, near the Southern rapi<ls. Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. Named 



Srednie (middle) by Vasilief in 1833. 

 Midkoi, bay; see Krestof harbor. 

 M'irJhji, cove; see Little. 

 Mieshak; cove, on south shore of Alaska peninsula, between Cold and Portage l)ays. 



So called by the Russians. 

 MiesofsH, point; see Black. 

 il//V.sv*/.s'Aoc', lake; see Round. 



Mig-a; cape, on the northwest shore of Kanaga island, Andreanof group, middle 

 Aleutians. So called by Tebenkof in 1849. Miga is the genitive of the 

 Russian mig (wink, twinkling of an eye, no time). 

 MikhailovsJcaia, bay; see Alimuda. 

 Mikischkin, point; see East Foreland. 

 Milavanof, river; see Chvilnuk. 

 Miliflores, Punta de los; see Thousand Flowers. 



Miles; canyon,, in the Lewes (formerly Yukon) river, between lakes Marsh and 



Laberge, often spoken of as the Great canyon of the Yukon. Schwatka, 



who passed through it and its rapids on a raft, July 2, 1883, named it 



after his department commander. General Nelson Appleton Miles, U. S. A. 



Miles; glacier, near the mouth of Copper river. So named by Allen, in 1885, after 



Gene^-al Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A. 

 Miles; pass, between the headwaters of the Copper and Tanana rivers. So named 



by Allen, in 1885, after General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A. 

 Milkie, point; see Rock. 

 Mill; lake, near St. Paul, Kodiak, draining to Popof bay. At the mouth of the 



stream draining from it, Tebenkof, 1849, shows a melnitza (mill). 

 Mill; reef, in Howkan strait, northwest from Howkan village, Cordova bay, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Sheldon Jackson in 1880. There v 

 (or was) a sawmill near this place. 

 Millard; trail, about 90 miles long, from Copper Center to Mentasta pass along the 

 western slopes of Mounts Drum and Sanford. Prospectors' name. Some 

 60 or 70 miles of this trail were cleared, under the direction of Mr. B. F. 

 Millard, in or about 1898. 

 Miller; cape, the eastern head of Sycamore bay, north coast of Kodiak. Named 

 Maknashkina by Murashef in 1839-40. Tebenkof, 1849, calls it melnu-h- 

 noi (relating to a mill), perhaps by reason of a mill in the adjacent bay. 

 It has been called Millers eape by the Coast Survey. 

 ' Miller, cape; see Popof. 



