.Mir -Slic. 



368 [BULL. 187. 



Shekt; i.-K't, in Wranjioll liarbor, Alexander archipelago. Apparently a native 

 name, reported by Zarembo in 1834. Zarembo's sketch of Wrangell har- 

 lM>r, wliereoutliis name appears, was published in 1848 on Russian Hydro- 

 grajihic cliart No. 1396. On United States Hydrographic chart 225 this is 

 called Shake island. 



Slnhhni, island; see Channel. 



Shelikof; bay, indenting the western shore of Kruzof island, Alexander archipelago. 

 Named l>v the Russians after Grigori Ivanovich Shelikof, founder of the 

 Hussian-American ('ompany. It is the Port Mary of Vancouver, in 1794. 

 Called ]Mary l)ay on some charts, and Puerto de Guadalupe in Galiano's 

 atlas. 1802. lias been mistranslated Silk bay. Present usage applies the 

 name Shelikof to the whole bay and restricts the name Mary to a cove or 

 small bight within the bay. 



ShcUkof, iiarlx)r; see Three Saints bay. 



Sill lib)/, lake; see Iliamna. 



Shelikof; strait, separating Kodiak from the mainland. So called by the Russians 

 in the last century after Grigori Ivanovich Shelikof. Cook, who saw its 

 eastern end, in 1778, called it Smokey bay on account of the smoke seen 

 on Point Banks. Meares traversed it in August, 1786, and named it 

 Petrie's strait, after William Petrie, esq. The Spaniards, in 1788, called it 

 Canal de Flores. The Russians usually called it Aliaskinskoi or Shelikof, 

 although it appears on an official map of 1 802 as Kenai strait. And finally 

 Shelikof has been written Chelekhoff, Helikoff, Shelikhoff, etc. 



Slu'll, bay; see Rakovoi. 



Shell; creek, tributary to Skwentna river, from the north, near longitude 151° 30^. 

 So named by Spurr, in 1898, after P. G. Shell, who prospected in this 

 region in 1887. 



Shell; hills (1,500 to 1,700 feet high), on the north bank of Skwentna river, 

 al)out 60 miles north of Cook inlet. So named by Spurr, in 1898, after 

 P. G. Shell, who prospected in this region in 1887. 



Slii-ll, island; see Mogilnoi. 



Shelter; bay, on the northwestern shore of Hinchinbrook island, Prince William 

 sound. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1900. 



Shelter; island, at junction of Stephens passage and Lynn canal, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by Meade in 1869. 



Shelter; islet, near the southern end of Long island, Chiniak bay, Kodiak. Named 

 I'bezhitza (shelter) by Russian naval officers in 1808-1810. 



Shelter; i)oint, the eastern point of Killisnoo island, Hood bay, Chatham strait, 

 Alexander archipelago. So named by Meade in 1869. 



SItcmi/a, islands; see Semichi. 



Shcpurd, creek; see Upland. 



Shepherd; creek, tributary to Snake river, from the west, in the Nome mining 

 region, Seward peninsula. Local name, published in 1900. Has also been 

 written Shepard. 



Sheridan; glacier, tributary to the Copper river, from the west, near its mouth. So 

 named by Abercrombie, in 1884, after Gen. Phil H. Sheridan, U. S. A. 



Sheridan; peak (3,514 feet high), on Lindenberg peninsula, Kupreanof island, 

 Alexander archipelago. Named by Thomas, in 1887, after Gen. Philip 

 Henry Sheridan, U. S. A. 



Sherman; peak (3,984 feet high), on Lindenberg peninsula, Kupreanof island, 

 Alexander archipelago. Named by Thomas, in 1887, after Gen. William 

 Tecumseh Sherman, U. S. A. 



Sherman ; point, on the eastern shore of Lynn canal, Alexander archipelago. Named 

 by Meade, in 1869, after Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, U, S. A. This 



