Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

[Randi]

Good work!

[Matteo]

Very nice find!

I've placed it on a low underwater bank which is near the 10 fathoms line, about 300 yards from the point itself: http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.co ... /-139.7921

[ggordon]

North Channel
https://www.geonames.org/11205300/north-channel.html

Referenced here at 6:55 AM:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0175.JPG

[Hanibal94]

Point Bazil (Worth adding as it looks like "Brazil")
https://www.geonames.org/5880118/point-bazil.html

Mentioned at 2031 here:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2-0008.JPG

[ggordon]

Old Harbor (on Kodiak Island)
https://www.geonames.org/5870746/old-harbor.html

Referenced here at 2:45 PM.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0206.JPG

Initially I thought it must be an old harbor somewhere around the city of Kodiak, but it turns out to be a small village at a different location on the island.

[AvastMH]

29 July 1894 Thrasher https://archive.org/details/logbookofth ... 8/mode/1up

Thrasher notes 'Returned Reef' about half way between Point Barrow and Herschel Island. The proper name in the Geographical Help Board for Alaska is:

Return Islands 70.48167 -148.88111

Return Reef See Return Islands

Please could we had 'Returned Reef' to the listing? Many thanks

[ggordon]

Klokachef Point

https://www.geonames.org/5554608/klokachef-point.html

Referenced here at 7:40PM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0220.JPG

[ggordon]

Winter Harbor, alternate name for Gibson Cove (already on our list)

https://www.geonames.org/5862798/gibson-cove.html

Referenced here at 11:30AM

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0223.JPG

[ggordon]

Saddler's Mistake

https://www.geonames.org/5873149/saddlers-mistake.html

Referenced here at 6:00 AM, but misspelled as Sadler's Mistake:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0228.JPG

[ggordon]

Otter Strait

https://www.geonames.org/5871007/otter-strait.html

Referenced here at 4:30 PM and 6:00 PM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0236.JPG

[ggordon]

Atkins Island

https://www.geonames.org/5879739/atkins-island.html

Referenced here at 11:00 AM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0237.JPG

[ggordon]

Several new locations all located close together.

Yukon Harbor

https://www.geonames.org/5878556/yukon-harbor.html

Flying Eagle Harbor

https://www.geonames.org/5862312/flying ... arbor.html

Cape Thompson, not the same location as the one already on our list

https://www.geonames.org/5876129/cape-thompson.html

Northeast Bight

https://www.geonames.org/5870331/northeast-bight.html

Spectacle Island

https://www.geonames.org/5874896/spectacle-island.html

Peninsula Island

https://www.geonames.org/5871407/peninsula-island.html

Northeast Harbor, different from the one already on our list.

https://www.geonames.org/5870338/northeast-harbor.html

These were all referenced here between Noon and 4:00 PM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0237.JPG

[ggordon]

Ivanof Bay

https://www.geonames.org/5865018/ivanof-bay.html

Referenced here at 6:52 AM and 8:33 AM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0238.JPG

[ggordon]

Cape Trinity

https://www.geonames.org/5876646/cape-trinity.html

Referenced here at 6:45 PM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0240.JPG

[ggordon]

Porpoise Harbor

https://www.geonames.org/5871903/porpoise-harbor.html

Eagle Harbor

https://www.geonames.org/5861183/eagle-harbor.html

Referenced here at 8:30 AM and 9:25 AM

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0244.JPG

[ggordon]

Cape Swedania

https://www.geonames.org/5875601/swedania-point.html

Referenced here at 10:40 AM:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0248.JPG

[AvastMH]

Molgrave Hills Belvedere, ODHS 222, 23rd July 1897

The log keeper notes the Mulgrave Hills as 'Molgrave Hills':


If the writes the letter 'v' running onto the letter 'e' the 'v' can look like an 's'. This clip from the shows the 'v' in 'Navarch' and 'saved'. 7th September 1897



Posted in 'Handwriting Help' for the Belvedere ODHS 222 Shipyard.

[Randi]

Excursion Inlet
https://www.geonames.org/5846129/excursion-inlet.html

Excursion Inlet Cannery Dam
https://www.geonames.org/5846135/excurs ... y-dam.html
Given the image, the distance from Excursion Inlet, and comments in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excursion_Inlet,_Alaska, I suspect that this location is not quite correct or maybe not current

Canning Salmon at Excursion Inlet, Alaska: The First Century

Canning Salmon at Excursion Inlet, Alaska: The First Century

[Matteo]

I think the Excursion Inlet Cannery Dam is absolutely misplaced in geonames.

There were two canneries in the inlet (one at the actual Excursion Inlet populated place, one more inside the inlet to the north, both are mentioned in the articles)... which year the log was? we should have good detailed maps, both modern and old for the area.

[Randi]

Based on the date, I was probably working on setting up Tallapoosa, so the year would be between 1931 and 1937.