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Pustoi; islet, near Ship island, in Umnak strait, eastern Aleutians. Called Pustoi 

 (barren or desert) by Kuritzien, 1849. Lutke calls it Tanghinakh, perhaps 

 intended for Tanjridak, the Aleut word for islet. The name Tanginak 

 applies to Ship island. 



Putnam; peak (3,887 feet high), on Lindenberg peninsula, Kupreanof island, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Thomas, in 1887, after Master Charles 

 Flint Putman, U. S. N., a member of Berry's party in Bering strait in 1880; 

 Putnam was driven to sea on an ice floe in Bering strait and perished. 



PntmDii, river; see Kowak. 



Pybus; bay, indenting the southeastern shore of Admiralty island, Frederick sound, 

 Alexander archipelago. So called by ^lanslield in 1889. 



Pybus; ])oint, the eastern point of entrance to Pybus bay. Admiralty island, Fred- 

 erick sound, Alexander archipelago. So named by Vancouver in 179-4. 



Pye; islands, near Nuka bay, off the southern coast of Kenai peninsula, Gulf of 

 Alaska. Named Pye's by Portlock, in 1786, and variously written Pi, Pies, 

 Pyes, etc. 



Pyke; ])oint, on the eastern shore of Port Bain))ridge, Prince William sound. So 

 named by Vancouver, 1794. 



Pyramid; harbor, at the head of Chilkat inlet, southeastern Alaska. The Hudson 

 Bay Company employes called this place Labouchere bay, after the steamer 

 of that name. Meade, in 1869, called it Pyramid Island harbor. It is now 

 commonly known as Pyramid harbor. The native name was reported by 

 the Krause brothers, in 1882, and is obscurely engraved on their map. It 

 appears to be Tichtinige. 



Pyram.id; island, at the head of Chilkat inlet, Lvnn canal, southeastern Alaska. 

 Descriptive name, given by Meade in 1869. Lindenberg, in 1838, called it 

 Peschanie (sandy). Has also been called Farewell through an erroneous 

 translation of Peschani. (i>roshaite=farewell. ) Has also been called 

 Stony, another translation of Peschani. It has been occupied by the Coast 

 Survey as an astronomical station and called Observatory island. The 

 native name, according to the Krause brothers, 1882, is Chlach'atsch, which 

 Dall writes Shla-hatch. 



Pyramid; mountain (2,320 feet high), near Iliuliuk, Unalaska, eastern Aleutians. 

 Descriptive name, published by the Coast Survey in 1875. 



Pyramid; peak (4,068 feet high), on the northeastern shore of Glacier bay, south- 

 eastern Alaska. Descrijitive name, from Reid, 1892. 



Pyramid, point; see Green. 



Quadra, hay, see Boca de Quad.ra, canal. 



QiKidra, island; see Dall. 



Quartz; creek, debouching nearly ojiposite Sledge ishad, Seward peninsula. Name 

 from Barnard, 1900. 



Quartz; c-reek, emptying into Kenai lake, Kenai peninsula. Prosi)ectors' name, 

 published by the Geological Survey in 1898. Mendenhall says (20 Geol. 

 Surv. Rep., VII, 302): "Quartz creek (the two streams of this name must 

 not be confused; one empties into Lake Kenai, the other into Turnagain 

 Arm)." 



Quartz; creek, tributary to Chandlar river, from the west, near latitude 68°. Pros- 

 pectors' name, published Ijy the Geologi(;al Survey in 1901. 



Quartz; creek, tributary to Goose creek, from the south, Seward i)eniMsula. Name 

 from Barnard, 1900. 



Quartz; creek, tributary to Kugruk river, from the west, Seward peninsula. Name 

 from Brooks, 1900. . 



Quartz; creek, tributary to Penny river, from the east, in tlu' Nome mining region, 

 Seward peninsula. Prospectors' name, published in 1900. It is Hutch- 

 inson creek of a recent local maj). 



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