Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

[Randi]

Well done!

[AvastMH]

Another Bird Island besides the two already on the list, at 54.82111, -159.75889
https://www.geonames.org/5857468/bird-island.html

Referenced here at 0905:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 7_0138.JPG

Sounds like they might even catch up with the number of Priest Rocks

[Michael]

Or North Capes!

[ggordon]

This Bird Island was very close to one that was already on the list. But that one wasn't in quite the right location, which led me to find the third one which was in the right place.

[Randi]

Or Egg Islands

[AvastMH]

Hmmmm - there's a list building here

Bishop Rocks
Priest Rocks
Bird Islands
Egg islands
North Capes

We only need one more common name to cover each side of a dice (properly 'die'). I wonder if that explains how these names crop up so much?
"Land ahoy Cap'n!" "Fetch the die Number One." Rattle, rattle. "Oh dear, that makes it 'Egg Island' three times in a row. Never mind. Enter it in the logbook..."

[Matteo]

Just had to do this!

Here's the actual standings from our database, for places that have 5 or more occurrencies (worldwide) in names or aliases... a few are quite surprising (we really do have 5 Umanak Islands?? The answer is of course yes, and despite the name sounding pretty Alaskan they're all in Greenland!):

Name	No
South Point	14
West Point	14
North Point	13
Rocky Point	13
East Point	12
Egg Island	12
Green Island	12
Black Rock	11
East Cape	11
Round Island	11
Bird Island	9
Black Point	9
Middle Point	9
North Head	9
Seal Rocks	9
Low Point	8
North Cape	8
North Channel	8
Pinnacle Rock	8
Sandy Point	8
Bluff Point	7
Entrance Island	7
Fox Island	6
Gull Island	6
North Island	6
Seal Rock	6
South Channel	6
Sugar Loaf	6
The Sisters	6
Tolstoi Point	6
Village Point	6
West Cape	6
Boca Chica	5
Cape Blanco	5
Cone Island	5
Double Island	5
English Bay	5
Green Island Light	5
Long Island	5
Low Island	5
North Rock	5
Northwest Point	5
O Shima	5
Pillar Rock	5
Punta Arenas	5
Reef Point	5
Saddle Island	5
Sail Rock	5
South Head	5
South Island	5
The Narrows	5
Umanak Island	5
White Rock	5

[Randi]

[Michael]

And only four Priest Rocks!!!

[AvastMH]

Nice one Matteo

Well that's put Priest Rocks back in their place

[pommystuart]

Have you looked at this mapping site? (I was looking for Zapad Head)
https://alaska.guide/the-map/zapad-head

[Michael]

[Randi]

Good find!

(Zapadni Point?)

[Randi]

Alaska’s Islands Of The Four Mountains Could Be Single Giant Volcano

[AvastMH]

Alaska’s Islands Of The Four Mountains Could Be Single Giant Volcano

That would be one very big volcano and I doubt things would go well if it went up

[ggordon]

Low Point (different from the one already on the list) on Zarembo Island
https://www.geonames.org/5555350/low-point.html

Referenced here as Noon location:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0094.JPG

[ggordon]

Eyeopener Light as an alternate for The Eye Opener Light.

I couldn't find anything similar to the scrawl starting with an "E", but then found that the usual name started with "The".

Referenced here as the Noon location:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0095.JPG

[ggordon]

Albans Head as alternate for Point Saint Albans

Referenced here at end of Merid to 4PM shift:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0095.JPG

[ggordon]

Point Manby
https://www.geonames.org/5868223/point-manby.html

Referenced here at 8:00 AM:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0099.JPG

[ggordon]

Point Turner Buoy

In this reference describing Khantaak Island,

The island is low and wooded except at Point Turner which is a tongue of sand with grass and bushes. A lighted bell buoy marks the edge of deep water 300 yards west of the point.

https://books.google.com/books?id=yxV-A ... oy&f=false

The buoy is referenced at 6:26 AM in this log
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0172.JPG