Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

[Michael]

There still is. It's at: 57.03431, -135.31333

https://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.c ... -135.31333

[Randi]

East Arm Uganik Bay
https://www.geonames.org/5861223/east-a ... k-bay.html

Presumably also Eastern Arm Ugomuk Bay

[AvastMH]

Hi Matteo

I found this database: Arctic Whalers' Place-Names Gazetteer for the Bering Strait Region and the Western Arctic

I'll go through and check them against the Alaska and Russian Geog topics. I just wanted to post it here so that I don't lose it.

[Randi]

Humpback Rock (https://www.geonames.org/5864371/humpback-rock.html) is also called Sugar Loaf Rock.
8:30pm: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 9_0030.JPG


Another East Point
https://www.geonames.org/5861329/east-point.html


Swan port is a variant of Swanport (that geonames doesn't seem to like)

[Sandy]

Additional versions of 'Fairway Rock' from the James Arnold, August 16th and 17th, 1893
"Fariaway Rook" (August 16)
"Fair away rook" (August 17)

Additional versions of the Diameads/Diomedes Islands also from the James Arnold, August 16th and 17th, 1893
"the Diameas" (August 16)
"the Dieameas" and "Diemeas" (August 17)


Both entries can be found on page 130 of the JA logbook:
https://archive.org/details/logbookofja ... 0/mode/1up

[AvastMH]

Nice one Sandy! Thumbs up

[ggordon]

Pisa Tower, alternate name for Pisa Point
https://www.geonames.org/4045637/pisa-point.html

Referenced here at 6:10PM:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 7-0015.JPG

[Randi]

That made me curious...

The descriptive name "Pisa Tower" was given by Lieutenant William Gibson, commander of the schooner U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper during the North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1855 (Baker, 1906, p. 500). The name "Pisa Tower" was published in the 1944 Aleutian Coast Pilot (p. 130) and is mentioned in the 1946 Supplement to the above Coast Pilot (p. 16): "Pisa Point * * * a low point ending in reef. Pisa Tower is a prominent leaning pinnacle * * * on this point."

https://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/16433.shtml

[ggordon]

I was curious too when I saw that. At first the handwriting looked like "P15A Tower" and I thought it must be a reference to a radio tower, but then I noticed Pisa Point on the map at roughly the location where the tower should have been. Then when I looked at alternate names for Pisa Point I saw Pisa Tower and realized I had read the log wrong. I thought it had to be more than coincidence having the name Pisa Tower.

[Randi]

Sitkinak Island Alutiiq Word of the Week
Listen: https://alutiiqmuseum.org/images/storie ... Island.mp3

[ggordon]

Flat Point
https://www.geonames.org/5862266/flat-point.html

This is a different Flat Point from the two already listed.

Referenced here at 5:23 PM
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 7-0018.JPG

[Michael]

Just three of them now? They don't even come close to these Alaskan places:

US East Cape (6)
US Egg Island (6)
US North Cape (6)
US North Point (6)
US Rocky Point (6)
US Tolstoi Point (6)

[Randi]

Nutchek is Nuchek

Tonoweck Narrows is Tonowek Narrows: https://www.geonames.org/5558037/tonowek-narrows.html

Calder Bay - https://www.geonames.org/5845179/calder-bay.html

Malaspina Glacier https://www.geonames.org/5868197/malaspina-glacier.html

Eckholm Island is The Eckholms

[Randi]

Funny River: https://www.geonames.org/5862624/funny-river.html

It's inland, so we are not likely to see it in the logs. I spotted it by chance and couldn't resist posting it

[Randi]

Niblick Point is Niblack Point

Zarambo Island is Zarembo Island

[Randi]

Port Johnson
https://www.geonames.org/5554038/port-johnson.html

Trocadero Bay
https://www.geonames.org/5558087/trocadero-bay.html

[ggordon]

Gannet Rock Beacon appears to be alternate name for Kuluk Bay Beacon E
https://www.geonames.org/12324168/kuluk ... rical.html

Sand Beacon appears to be alternate name for Kuluk Bay Beacon C
https://www.geonames.org/12324167/kuluk ... rical.html

These are guesses based on bearings recorded on this log page from 1944 at 11:45 AM.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0006.JPG

[Michael]

[ggordon]

Finger Bay, Adak Island
https://www.geonames.org/5862046/finger-bay.html

A few references here during the morning.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0032.JPG

[Randi]

Sitka, 1805
(Urey Lisiansky, A Voyage Round the World
in the Years 1803, 4, 5 and 6)