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Pot— Pri. 



Potainikof — Continued. 



about 2 miles. Potainik iss Russian for a hidden or secret j>l.ae(' and in the 



colonies was applied to a rock- which never uncovered, but revealed itself 



l)y breakers in heavy weather. At such times they said "The Potainik is 



playing." 

 Potato; mountain, on 8e\vard peninsula, about 10 miles northeast of Cape Prince of 



Wales, near Bering strait. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1900. 



Apparently this is C^onical hill of Reechey, 1827. 

 Potato; point, in Valdes narrows. Prince William sound. So called by Aber- 



croml)ie in 1898. 

 Fouale, bay; see Cold. 

 Poundstone; rock, in the southern part of Lynn canal, Alexander archipelago. 



Named by Mansfield, in 1890, after Ensign Homer Clark Poundstone, U. 



S. N., a member of his party. 

 Poverotni, point; see Lockwood. 

 Poverntnie, point; see Vanderbilt. 

 Poverty; island, off the south end of Long island, Chiniak liay, Kodiak. Named 



I'bezhitsha (?poverty) by Russian naval officers in 1808-1810. 

 Povorotni; island, in Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. Named Povorotni (turn 



or turnabout) by Vasilief in 1833. Has also been written Povero and 



Poverotni; also called Turnabout. It is Return island of Meade in 1869. 



For a long time, 1835-1875, it was conspicuously marked by a canoe, 



marking the burial place of a family of Sitka Indians who died of measles 



in 1835. From this it derived the local name of Canoe island. 

 Povorotni, island; see Turnalwut. 

 Povorotni; point, the northeast point of entrance to Redoubt bay, Sitka sound, 



Alexander archipelago. Named Povorotnoi (turnabout) by Vasilief in 



1809. Also has been called Povorot, Poverotnoi, and Turnabout. 

 Povorotni, point; see Turner. 

 Povorotnoi, point; see Protection. 

 Pow; island, in Hassler harbor, Revillagigedo channel, Alexander archipelago. So 



named by Nichols in 1882. 

 Powell; peak (2,655 feet high), on the mainland, near Thomas bay, southeastern 



Alaska. Named by Thomas, in 1887, after Maj. John Wesley Powell, 



then Director of the United States Geological Survey. 

 Powell; peak, on the northwestern shore of Klutina lake. So named by Aber- 



crombie in 1898. 

 Pratt; mountain, on the mainland, west of the Stikine river. Named by the Coast 



Survey, after John Francis Pratt, assistant, Coast and (Tcodetic Survey. 

 Pravoi, point; see Right Hand. 

 Praznik; island, in St. Paul harbor, Kodiak. Named Rocky l)y Lisianski in 



1804. Russian naval officers, 1808-1810, named it Prazdnichnoi (iioliday 



or picnic). It has also been called Holiday island. 

 Preacher; creek, tributary to Birch creek, from the south, near latitude 66°. Name 



published by the Coast Survey in 1895. 

 Preble; peak (5,028 feet high), on the mainland, near Thomas ))ay, southeastern 



Alaska. Named by Thomas, in 1887, after Rear- Admiral George Henry 



Preble, U. S. N. 

 Pribilie; island, at the north end of Krestof sound, Alexander archipelago. Nanietl 



Pribllie (profitable) by Vasilief in 1833. 

 Pribilof ; group of islands in Bering sea, composed of two larger ones, St. Paul and 



St. George, and two smaller ones. Otter and Walrus. Often called the Fur 



Seal islands. They were "discovered in 1786 by the pilot Pribilof and 



then called Novy (new), afterwards Lebedevski, from the name of the 



