BAKER.] 385 Spr— Sta. 



Spruce; cape, the sontlnvestern point of Spruce island, Kodiak group. Named 

 Elovoi (Spruce) by Mura.shef in 1839-40. 



Spruce; cape, the western point of entrance to Chiniak Isay, Kodiak. Named Elovoi 

 vneshnie (spruce outer) by the early Russians. Called Elovoi (spruce) 

 by Tebenkof, 1849. 



Spruce; creek, just south of Port Clarence, Seward peninsula. Name from Barnard, 

 1900. 



Spruce; creek, tributary to the Koksuktapaga river, from the south, Seward penin- 

 sula. Name from Barnard, 1900. 



Spruce; island, between Afognak and Kodiak. Lisianski, in 1804, calls it Pine island 

 and Langsdorf, Jellowa (fir). Variously called Elow, Elovoi, Yelovoi, etc. 



Spruce; island (84 feet high), off Pybus bay, Frederick sound, Alexander archipelago- 

 Named Yelowy (spruce) Ijy Zarembo in 1838. Erroneously Yellowy. 



Spruri', island; see Elovoi. 



Spruce; point, on the eastern shore of Wrangell strait, Alexander archipelago. 

 m Named Schroeder by Meade, in 1869, after Lieut. Seaton Schroeder, 



P U. S. N., a junior officer on the Saginaiv in 1868-69. It is Spruce point 



of Lindenberg in 1838. 



Spuhn; island (246 feet high), at western entrance to Gastineau channel, south- 

 eastern Alaska. So named by Beardslee, in 1880, after Mr. Carl Spuhn, of 

 the Northwest Trading Company. 



Spuhn; point, on Spuhn island, at west end of Gastineau channel, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. Said to have been so "named by the United States Navy in 1881.'" 

 PThis seems to be an error. Apparently it was first so called in the Coast 

 Pilot (1883, p. 173). 



SpuJin, point; see Zimovia. 



Spurr; glacier, in longitude 143°, near Skolai pass. Named after Josiah Edward 

 Spurr, of the Geological Survey, by Rohn, in 1900. 



Spurt; point, on the northern shore of Thomas bay, Frederick sound, Alexander 

 archipelago. So named by Thomas in 1887. 



Square; bluff, on the northern shore of Amchitka island, western Aleutians. So des- 

 ignated by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1855. 



Square ; cove, Admiralty island, Chatham strait, Alexander archipelago. Descrip- 

 tive name, given by Baker in 1880. 



Square; island, in Behm canal, at mouth of Spacious bay, Alexander archipelago. 

 Descriptive name, given by the Coast Survey in 1891. 



Square; island, in Tlevak strait, north of Long island, Alexander archipelago. De- 

 I scriptive name, given by Nichols in 1881. 



Squaw; creek, tributary to South fork of the Koyukuk, from the east, near latitude 

 67°. Prospectors' name, reported by Schrader in 1899. 



Squaw; gulch and creek, tributary to Canyon creek, from the west, in the Fortymile 

 } mining district. Local name, obtained by Barnard in 1898. 



Sqnentna, river; see Skwentna. 



Srednaia, bay, etc. ; see Middle. 



Sredni, island; see ^Middle. 



Sredni, point; see Middle. 



Ssergoit; river, tributary to Kusawa lake, in the upper Yukon valley. Native name, 

 reported by the Krause brothers in 1882 as Ssergoit. 



Ssitkaje, glacier; see Davidson. 



Stachin, river; see Stikme. 



Stachtan Nitada. According to Cook, 1778, this name had appeared on "modern 

 maps " as a name of a part of the continent of America, the part we now 

 call Alaska. But he could not find that this name was locally known to 

 either natives or Russians. 



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