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Walkerville; village, near or in the Porcupine gold district. Name pnl)lished by 



tlio Geological Survey in 1900. 

 Wallace ; reef, in Felice strait, Alexander archipelago. So named by Harber in 1893. 

 Wallace: mck (1 foot below low water), in Cordova bay, Alexander archipelago. 



So I'allcd by the Coast Survey in 1899. 

 Wall Street: creek, tributary to South fork of Fortymile creek. Prospectors' name, 



l)ul)lished by the Geological Survey in 1899. 

 Walpole; point, the south point of entrance to Port Houghton, Frederick sound, 



Alexander archipelago. So named by Vancouver in 1794. 

 Walrus; island, east of St. Paul island, Pribilof group, Bering sea. Named INIor- 



zhovoi ( walrus) by the early Eussians. Sarichef, aboutl790, has Morzhovoi 



and Lutke, about 1830, morjovi (des morses). 

 Walrus; island, the easternmost of the Kudobin islands, near Port Moller, Bristol 



bay, Bering sea. So called by Dall in 1882. See also Wolf point. 

 Wdfrn.o, island; see Round. 

 Walrus; islands, in northern part of Bristol bay, Bering sea. Sarichef's atlas, 1826 



(sheet III), applies this name to an island called by the natives Kaiashik, 



and which Tebenkof identifies with Round island of Cook. Tebenkof, 



whom we here follow, calls the whole group Morzhovia (walrus). 

 Walrus; peak, near Morzhovoi bay, at western end of Alaska peninsula. Called 



Morjevskoi (walrus) by Lutke, 1835. 

 Walter; island, in Port Houghton, Frederick sound, Alexander archipelago. So 



named by Nichols in 1882. 

 Warburton; island, in Nichols passage, off Port Chester, Alexander archipelago. 



So named by Nichols in 1883. 

 Ward; cove, in Tonga.ss narrows, indenting the shore of Revillagigedo island, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. Named after W. AV. Waud, of Portland, Oreg., who 



established a saltery here in 1883 or 1884, and was drowned near here in 



IMarch, 1892. In print the cove has always been called Ward. 

 'Ward; mountain, in the southwestern part of Revillagigedo island, Alexander 



archipelago. So named by Nichols in 1883. 

 Wards; point, on Cleveland peninsula, the south point of entrance to Bradfield 



canal. So named by Vancouver in 1793. 

 Warehouse, mission; see Shiniak. 

 Waring'; point, the northeasternmost point of Wrangell island, Arctic ocean. 



Named Waring's by Berry, in 1881, after Lieut. Howard Scott Waring, 



U. S. N., a member of his party. 

 Warm; creek, tributary to Goldbottom creek, from the east, Seward peninsula. 



Name from Barnard, 1900. 

 Warm Spring-; bay, in Baranof island, northwest of Point Gardner, Chatham strait, 



Alexander archipelago. So named by Moore in 1895. 

 Warm Spring; mountain (3,370 feet high), on the eastern bank of Stikiue river, 



near Great glacier. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1895. 

 Warren; island, at the southeastern point of entrance to Sumner strait, Alexander 



archipelago. So named by Vancouver,, in 1793, after Sir John Borlase 



^Varren. 

 Warren, islands; see Spanish. 



Warren; peak (2,140 feet high), on Warren island, Sumner strait, Alexander archi- 

 pelago. So named by Snow in 1866. 

 Wart; point, in Behm canal, northwest from entrance to Rudyerd bay. So named 



by the Coast Survey in 1891. 

 Washington; bay, indenting the western shore of Kuiu island, Chatham strait, 



Alexander archipelago. Name published by the Coast Survey in 1899. 

 Washington; creek, tributary to Seventymile creek, from the north. Local name, 



obtained by Barnard in 1898. 



