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Note: Place names include lighthouses.
Links to Alaskan Place Name Resources
Modern Maps:
- Chart Locator from NOAA
- Catalog of Maps of all Alaskan Regions from NOAA
- Mapcarta - Alaska
- i-boating free marine charts
- Garmin Active Captain
- Alaska Guide Co. Map
- OW Tools Map finder
- From Coast Survey's Historical Map & Chart Collection (NOAA)
Note: This site has very useful information, but at times it is very slow. - From David Rumsey Collection
- "Amerique Russe" and surroundings, 1862
- Alaska, 1880
- Alaska, 1889
- Alaska, 1906
- Alaska in Four Sections, 1909
- Alaska, 1924
- Alaska, 1948
- New Alaska Gold Fields, 1901
- A good-natured map of Alaska, 1934 thanks to pommystuart, this map is just awesomely detailed
- Old Maps Online
- Map of Northwest Alaska - Kotzebue Sound
- Map Room at AlaskaWeb
- Explorations in northern Canada and adjacent portions of Greenland and Alaska 1904 James White FRGS geographer
- Arctic regions 1896
- Geographic Dictionary of Alaska Aantlen (page 79) to Kaatl (page 339)
and
Geographic Dictionary of Alaska Jumbo (page 339 (1)) to Zutchwik (page 690 (336)) [one page overlap]
Very comprehensive! Compilation of works from various authorities from 1741 to 1905 (Includes Marcus Baker's work)
(The search function does not work) - Geographic Dictionary of Alaska by Marcus Baker
- A gazetteer of whalers' place names for the Bering Strait region and the Western Arctic
- Historical Coast Pilots
- Pacific Coast Pilot (1891) from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Alaska: Coast Pilot Notes (1915) from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Alaska. Coast Pilot Notes on the Fox Islands Passes, Unalaska Bay, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean ... (1900) from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Alaska Coast Pilot Notes from Yakutat Bay to Cook Inlet (1908) from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Alaska. Coast Pilot Notes on Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean ... November 20, 1908. from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Feature Search
- NOAA: Tidal Station Locations and Ranges
- Wide variety of information about Alaska
- The Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, Donald J Orth, 1967
- The Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, Donald J Orth, 1971
- Alaska Salmon Investigations in 1900 and 1901, Jefferson F. Moser, Commander (contains some interesting Alaska Maps)
- United States Coast Pilot Alaska - Part I - Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay, 1917
- Encyclopedia Arctica 12: Alaska, Geography and General
- Encyclopedia Arctica 15-volume unpublished reference work (1947-51)
- Alaska Community Histories
- Alaska Community Information
- Directory for Behring's Sea and coast of Alaska: arranged from the directory of the Pacific Ocean, 1869
- A Naval Encyclopædia, 1881, L. R. Hamersly & Co., Philadelphia
- Lighthouse Friends
- MarineTraffic.com - Lighthouses & Aids to Navigation
- The United States Coast Guard Lightship Sailors Association International, Inc.
- U.S. Coast Guard Lightships: A Historical Index
- National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Survey Marks and Datasheets - Thanks to T-M!
For more general place name resources, see the Welcome topic.
To ask for help or to contribute place name information and links to place name resources (strongly encouraged!), see Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion
To view place names in nearby regions, see Russian Place Names -- Reference, Canadian Place Names -- Reference and China Station, Japan, Pacific and Indian Ocean -- Reference
of this area is also available
with all the placenames of this area is also available