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Hinnyuli. This Eskimo name appears on Ray's map of 1885 for some feature a little 

 east of the United States Signal Service station Utkiavi, near Point Barrow, 

 Arctic coast. 



Sinuk* creek, a little south of Port Clarence, Seward peninsula. Eskimo name, 

 whicli ha.s been written Sinouk, Sinrock, and Synrock. Petrof, 1880, has 

 an Eskimo village on the north, shore of Port Clarence called Siniogamute, 

 i. e., Siniok people. 



Sinuk' Eskimo village, on the northern shore of Port Clarence, Seward peninsula. 

 Given by Petrof, in 1880, as Siniogamute, i. e., Siniok people. 



Siouchi, bay; see Sealion. 



Siouchi, islets; see Sealion. 



Siroi; point, on Baranof island. Peril strait, Alexander archipelago. Named Siroi 

 (wet) by Vasilief in 1833. 



Sisaguk; native village (in about 1830) on the northern shore of Unimak. This is 

 the native name. The Russians called it Shishaldinski. 



Sisagid; volcano; see Shishaldin. 



Sisek; cove, on the south shore of Beaver bay, in Biorka island, Unalaska, eastern 

 Aleutians. Aleut name, from Sarichef, 1792. Perhaps this should be 

 Sasak, the Aleut name of the parroquet auk. Sisik is the Aleut word for 

 the numeral 100. 



Sishimhil:, island; see Sitymkan. 



Sister; three islands, at high water, about one mile south of Kelp island, Dixon 

 entrance. Named Twin islands by pilot W. E. George and so published 

 in the Coast Pilot (1883, p. 77). The name Sister islands, published by 

 the Coast Survey, in 1885, has come into general use. 



Sisters; island, near Port Frederick, in Icy strait, Alexander archipelago. Called 

 Sister islands by United States naval officers in 1880. 



Sisters (The); two peaks (1,308 and 1,325 feet high), about 12 miles southeast of 

 St. Michael, Norton sound. So named by the Coast Survey in 1898. 



Sisters {The), islands; see Lynn Sisters. 



,S7.s7cr.s' {The), islands; see Twin. 



Sitak; glacial stream, in the St. Elias alps, debouching a few miles southeast of 

 Yakutat bay. Apparently a native name, published by Tebenkof in 1849. 



Sil]i(nuik, island; see Biorka. 



Sitka; harbor, in Sitka sound, Baranof island, Alexander archipelago. 



tSilkii, island; see Baranof. 



Sitka, island; see Kruzof. 



Sitka; point, on the southern shore of Kruzof island, Sitka sound, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. What is now called Cape Edgecumbe was called Sitka i)oint by 

 Russian naval officers in 1809. The present usage retains both names, 

 Edgecumbe for the southwest point of Kruzof island, and Sitka for the 

 inner angle of that point. 



Sitka; sound, on the western shore of Baranof island, Alexander archipelago. First 

 visited by Bodega and Maurelle in August, 1775, and by them called 

 Ensenada del Susto (bay of terrors). Dixon, who visited and made a 

 sketch of it in June, 1787, called it Norfolk sound, which name was 

 adopted by Vancouver. The native name, according to the Frenchman 

 Marchand, who was here in 1791 or 1792, is Tchinkitanay bay. The Rus- 

 sians who began settlement here in 1799 obtained from the natives the 

 name Shitka, a name which, modified to Sitka, has come into general use. 



Sitka; town, one of the chief towns of Alaska. Baranof, in 1799, visited Sitka sound 

 and began the construction of a fortified post, which he called Fort Arch- 

 angel Gabriel. This fort, located on what is now known as Old harbor, 

 was completed the following spring. In May, 1802, the natives attacked 



