Ta 111— Tan. 



398 [BULL. 187. 



Tamgas; reef, in Felice strait, Graviua group, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 ' l)y Xiohols in 1883. 



Tan. This is .said to be the native name for cape or pcAyd as used by the Indians 

 al)()ut Cook inlet. It is added as a final syllable. Thus, Kukiston, i. e., 

 Kukis cape. 



Tana; glacier and river, tributary to the Chitina, from the south. Native name, 

 from a manuscript map made by prospectors in 1900. 



TaiKud; cape; see Paramanof. 



Tanada; creek and lake, tributary to Copper river, from the east, near longitude 

 144°. Apparently a native name, reported by Peters, of the Geological 

 Survey, in 1899. 



Tanadak; island, one of the westernmost of the Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. 

 Aleut name, from Tebenkof, 1849. Has also been written Tanadakh. 

 Perhaps it means crab place. 



Tanadak; islet, east of and near Little Kiska, Rat island group, western Aleutians. 

 Aleut name from Lutke. Also written Tanadakh. 



Tanadak; islet, near the eastern end of Amlia island, Andreanof group, middle 

 Aleutians. Native name, from Tebenkof, 1849. 



Tanaga; bay, indenting the western shore of Tanaga island, Andreanof group, 

 middle Aleutians. So called by Sarichef in 1790. Tebenkof, in 1849, called 

 this Slava Rossie (Glory of Russia) bay, after the ship Glory of Rtissia, 

 commanded by Billings, in whose company Sarichef was. So it appears 

 on late maps as Glory of Russia bay. 



Tanaga; island (6,975 feet high), one of the principal islands of the Andreanof 

 group, middle Aleutians. Aleut name, from early Russian explorers. 

 Lutke has Tanaga or Taniaga, and Grewingk indicates that the native 

 name is Takawangha. Has also been written Tannaga. 



Tanaga, island; see Little Tanaga. 



Tanak; cape, the northernmost point of Umnak, eastern Aleutians. Veniamiiiof 

 calls this cape Egorkovskoi, " noteworthy for the enormous blocks thrown 

 out by the explosion of Tulik volcano in 1817." The native village 

 Egorovskoi, located here at that time, was destroyed, the natives, how- 

 ever, being absent. The village was rebuilt in Inanudak bay and is, 1 

 suppose, the Nikolski village of today. Kuritzien, 1849, calls this Tanak, 

 the Aleut word ior jilace and the Kodiak word for ivater. 



Tanakli-angounakh, island; see Chuginadak. 



Tanukhotlhaiak, village; see Tanakot. 



Tanaklak; island, south of Great Sitkin, Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. 

 Aleut name, from Tebenkof, 1849. Has also been written Tanakhlakh. 



Tanakot; native village, on north bank of the Yukon, near mouth of the Melozi 

 river. Population in 1880, 52. The Tenth Census (1880) gives as the 

 name of a town near this locality Tanakhotkhaiak. On later maps it 

 appears as Tahnohkalony. 



Tanana; glacier, in latitude 62°, longitude 142° 30^ So named by the Geological 

 Survey in 1898. 



Tanana; post-office, on north bank of the Yukon, at mouth of the Tanana river. 

 Established in September, 1898. At this place is Fort Gibbon, and also 

 the New St. James Mission. 



Tanana; river, of central Alaska, tributary to the Yukon; literally Tanan-na, i.e., 

 Tanan river and said to mean river of the mountain men. According to Allen 

 its upper part is called Nabesnii by the natives. It was known to the 

 traders of the Hudson Bay Company as Gens des Buttes. Has been 

 variously written Tananah, Tannanah, Tennanah, etc., but it is now 

 universally known as the Tanana. 



