GEOLOGY ABOUT CHICHAGOF COVE, 
STEPOVAK BAY 
WITH NOTES ON POPOF AND UNGA ISLANDS 
BY CHARLES PALACHE 
At Sand Point, in the Shumagin Islands, I left the 
steamer with a small hunting party. After spending a 
day on Popof Island, in the vicinity of Sand Point, the 
party was landed on the mainland of the Alaska Penin¬ 
sula at a small cove on the shore of Stepovak Bay, known 
locally as Chichagof Cove. Here we remained for about 
ten days, and I had opportunity to study the geology of a 
limited area with some detail. In the following pages it 
is my purpose to record the observations I was able to 
make in the field and the results of the study of the rock 
specimens collected. 
Unfavorable weather and limited facility for moving 
camp made it necessary to confine the study to a region 
within a short day’s march from camp, and it was found 
impossible to traverse the peninsula—very narrow at this 
point—as I had hoped to do. Furthermore, I was without 
surveying instruments except for a small pocket compass, 
so that the map given herewith (fig. 16) is merely a sketch, 
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