,lk-Mz. 



300 fK'''-'" i«. 



Nikolaief; nii.-lioniirf aii.l small vilhiKf, ni-ar Bclkofski, Alaska peninsula. Called 

 Nikiilaicvskx I'V retnif, in ISSO, and Xicoloffsky by the Kisli Coniniission. 

 rrcsiniiaiil.v named by the Russians after Tsar Nikolas. 



Mkolii.i, nick or shoal; si'e C'ozian. 



Xikiilslci, rn]K'; see Taiiak. 



Nikolski; nativi' villaj^e, on the northern shore of Uinnak, opposite Driftwood hay. 

 So called hy the Russians as early as ISHO. Venianiinof s])eaks of it a.s 

 Kiecheshnoe (river), now called Nikolski. Population in 18:54, S;i; in 1S80, 

 127; in 1890, about 100. Lutke writes it Retchechnoi and Petrof, Nikolsky. 



yikolsbii, village; ><«e Korovinski. 



Nilkoka; river, tributary to the Tanana, from the north, near latitude 65°. Native 

 name, reported by Peters and Brooks in 1898. 



Ninag-iak; island, in Hallo bay, Shelikof strait. Native name, from Tebenkof, 1849. 



Niiiilchik; cape and river, on the eastern shore of Cook inlet. So called by Tebenkof, 

 1849. Wosnesenski, aV)out 1840, calls the cape Neniltschik or Sunit and 

 the river Chnik-Chnak. 



Ninilchik; rock or rocks, on the eastern shore of Cook inlet, between Kasilof and 

 Ninilchik river mouths. Native name, from Tebenkof, 1849. 



Ninilchik; village of 81 people (1890), on eastern shore of Cook inlet, south of the 

 Kasilof river mouth. Late maps show a fishery here. A small Russian 

 settlement was made here early in the century. Petrof (Tenth Census, 

 VIII, p. 27) says: "A number of 'colonial citizens,' or superannuated 

 employes, of the old Russian Company were ordered to settle some fifty 

 or sixty years ago (1830 or 1820) at Ninilchik, and their descendents live 

 there still." On Wosnesenski' s map in Grewingk, about 1840, the place 

 is called Munina and the nearby cape Neniltschik or Sunit. 



NitiH(tii-7''n(/<it, lake; see Becharof. 



Nipple; mountain, in California ridge, Uravina island, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by Nichols in 1883. 



Nipples (The); two mountains (elevations 2,450 and 2,900 feet high), near Sha- 

 kan ])ay, on Koscitisko island, Alexander archipelago. .Called Shakan 

 nipples in the Coast Pilot of 1883 (p. 101). Usually called The Nipples. 



Xi/irnhitdiii, bay; see No Thorofare. 



Nisling; river, tributary to the White river, from the east, near longitude 140°. 

 Native name, reported by Hayes in 1891. 



Nismeni; cove, at north end of Baranof island, Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. 

 So named l)y ^Nloore in 1895. 



Nismeni; lake, on the border of Malaspina glacier. Tebenkof shows such a lake just 

 behind Point Riou (Nismeni of Tebenkof), which he calls Nizmennie( low). 



Nismeni; j)oint, the northernmost point of Baranof island, Peril strait, Alexander 

 archipelago. Named Nismeni (low or low-lying) by Vasilief in 1833. 

 Has also been written Nismenna and Nizmennie. 



Nitak; Indian village, on Knik arm of Cook inlet. Native name, reported by 

 I'etrof, in 1880, as Nitakh. 



Niukluk; river, in Seward peninsula, tributary to Golofnin sound. An Kskimo 

 name, now used locally, and variously written Nea-kluk, Neukluk, 

 Neukeluk, etc. The Western Union Telegraph P^xpedition map of 1867 

 calls it Icathluik. In 1869 it was called Fish river, apparently by Dall, 

 and has since borne this name on most maps till quite recently. The 

 Russians, as early as 1852, call e<l it Ikiut-pak (Ikiut-big) or Big Ikint of 

 the Eskimo. See also Eaton. 

 Xiiiiiiil:, island; see Chernobour. 

 .\ (';/(//(', lake; see Lower. 



