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Virublennoi; i.-^land, southwest of Japonski i.«lancl, Sitka sound, Alexander archipel- 

 a<^o. Named Virublennoi (tree.s cut down, i. e. , cleared ) by Vasilief in 1809. 



Vitskari; inland, and rocks, in Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago. So named by 

 ' Vasilief in 1809. Lisianski, in 1804, called them ^liddle islands. Accord- 

 in" to Cieorge Kostrometinoff, U. S. court interpreter at Sitka, this means 

 (captain) Witz's chaslii^emsnt. 



Vixen; bay, indenting the southern shore of Boca de Quadra, Alexander archi- 

 j)elago. So narxied by the Coast Survey, in 1891, presumably after one of 

 its steam launches. 



Vixen; inlet, on the western shore of Cleveland peninsula, opening into Ernest 

 sound, Alexander archipelago. So named by Snow, in 1886, presumably 

 after the steam launch Vixen. 



Vkhoda, cape; see South. 



Vnieshme, rock; see Outer. 



Vodopad; river, tributary to the head of Silver bay, Baranof island, Alexandei 

 archipelago. So called on Coast and Geodetic Survey chart 8340 (ed. of 

 1898). The Russian charts have the word Vodopad or Wodopad (water 

 fall) in this place, one of them indicating a height of 350 feet. 



]'i„nt(]shif/o, island; see Woewodski. 



Volcano; bay, indenting the northeastern shore of Makushin bay, Unalaska. Sc 

 named by the Fish Commission in 1888. Sarichef's map, of 1792, as also 

 Tebenkof's, 1849, shows the village of Makushin on this bay. The pres- 

 ent Makushin village is about 4 miles south of this place. 



Volcano; bay, indenting the southern shore of Alaska peninsula, near Pavlof vol- 

 cano. So called by Dall, in 1880; perhaps a local name. 



Volcano; point, south of Pavlof volcano, Alaska peninsula. So named by Dall in 1880. 



Vdlrhle, is. and; see Wolf point. 



Volga; island, near Middle channel into Sitka harbor, Sitka sound, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by the Russians. 



Volkmar; river, tributary to the Tanana, from the east, near longitude 146°. . So 

 named, in 1885, bv Allen, in honor of Col. William Jefferson Volkmar, 

 U. S. A. 



Voorhees, islands; see Lively. 



Vorobinoi, islet; see Sparrow. 



Voronie, island; see Crow. 



Voronkoivski, island; see Woronkofski. 



I'oxnesfijski, island; see Wosnesenski. 



Voss; creek, tributary, from the west, to South fork of Fortymile creek. Local name, 

 published by the Geological Survey in 1899. 



Yostochnk, channel; see Eastern. 



VoMoclinie, point; see East. 



Vostochnie, point; see Northeast. 



Vosiochnoi, cape; see East. 



VoMochnoi, point; see Tolstoi. 



Vozvrushenia, arm; see Turnagain. 



Vsevidof ; group of six islets, with some rocks and shoals, lying on the south side of 

 and near to Umnak, eastern Aleutians. Called Sevidow, Sevidovskaia, 

 Vsevidow, etc., by the Russians, perhaps after Andrei Vsevidof, a Russian 

 fur trader, who was in the Aleutian islands in 1747. 



Vsevidof; volcano (8,800 feet high), near the middle of Umnak island, eastern Aleu- 

 tians. So called by Veniaminof and possibly by earlier Russians. The 

 name has been variously spelled Sewidow, Vcevidofski, Wsewidow, etc. 



Vulcan; cove, indenting the southern shore of Akutan island, Krenitzingroup, eastern 

 Aleutians. So named by the Fish Commission in 1888. The fire of Vulcan 

 is much in evidence in this island. 



