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Reef; point, the north point of entrant-e to Port Real Marina, Bucareli bay. Prince 

 of Wales archii>elago. Named Punta del Arricife (reef point) l)y Manrelle 

 and Quadra in 1775-1779. Erroneously Arrecite. 



Reef; point, the southeastern point of Young island, Tlevak strait, Cordova bay, 

 Alexander archipelago. Descriptive name, given by Nichols in 1881. 



Reef; point, the southernmost point of St. Paul island, Pribilof group, Bering sea. 

 Local name, published by the Coast Survey in 1875. 



Reef; rock and shoal, in Redfish bay, Baranof island, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by Moser in 1897. 



Refuge; cove, juot north of Ward cove, on eastern shore of Tongass narrows, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. Perhaps »o named by local pilots. Name published 

 by the Coast Survey in 1886. 



Refuge; inlet, on the Arctic coast, a little west of Point Barrow. So named l)y 

 Beechey in 1826. Its Esknno name, according to Murdoch, is Wal-a-pai. 



Refugio; port, in Bucareli bay, Prince of Wales archipelago. Named Puerto del 

 Refugio (port of refuge) by Maurelle and Quadra in 1 775-1779. Variously 

 called Port Refuge, Port Refugio and Puerto del Refugio. 



Regal; glacier, on eastern flank of Regal mountain. So named by Schrader in 1900. 



Regal; mountain (18,400 feet high), in longitude 143°, ESE. irom INIount Wrangell. 

 So named by Rohn in 1899. ^ 



Reid; l)ay, in Kuiu island, Sumner strait, Alexander archipelago. Named by 

 Helm in 1886. Perhaps the intention was to name it after Ensign 

 ^Maurice Lance Read, U. S. N., a member of Helm's party. Has been 

 written Reid, Reid's, and Reids. 



Reid; inlet, at head of Glacier bay, southeastern Alaska. Named after Prof. Harry 

 Fielding Reid, who visited Glacier bay, in 1890 and 1892, and studied its 

 glaciers. The statement in the Sixteenth Annual Rei)ort Geological Sur- 

 vey, Part I, p. 423, that it was named by the Ignited States Board on 

 (xeographic Names is an error. 



Reindeer; hills, on the peninsula forming the south head of Norton bay, Norton 

 sound. Local name, from Peters, 1900. 



Remedies; point, the western point of entrance to Port Dolores, Bucareli bay, Prince 

 of Wales archipelago. Named Punta de los Remedies (point of the reme- 

 dies) by Maurelle and Quadra in 1775-1779. 



Eemedios, Puerto de los; see Salisbury. 



Rendu; inlet and glacier, at head of Glacier bay, southeastern Alaska. So named 

 by Reid, in 1892, after a French glacialist. 



Renshaw; jioint, on the southern shore of Alaska peninsula, north of the Shnmagins. 

 So named by Dall in 1880. 



Rescue; roadstead, on the eastern shore of Sullivan island, Lynn canal, Alexander 

 archipelago. So named by Meade, in 1869, in memory of his rescue of six 

 persons of the American schooner Louisa Downs, wrecked here in 1867. 



Reshimosti; island, south of Japonski island, Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named Reshimosti (resolution) by Vasilief in 1809. Has also Ix'en written 

 Retchimosti and Roshimosti. 



Ii('>!iirri-cti(»i, arm; see Turnagain. 



Recurrection; l)ay, indenting the southeastern shore of Keuai i)eninsula. It is Port 

 Andrews of Portlock in 1787. Baranof, in 1792, selected this .«pot for a 

 shipyard and called it Voskresenskaia Tliis word means Resurrei'tion, 

 and also Sunday. Here was built and launched, in 1794, tli(> I'honiix, the 

 tirst vessel built in what is now Alaska. 



Resurrection; cape, the eastern point of entrance to Resurrection bay, on southern 

 shore of Kenai peninsula. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1869. 

 It is Point Barwell of Portlock in 1787. 



