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Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:17 pm
by Randi
Good work!

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:14 am
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:43 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:21 pm
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:31 pm
by 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.

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:07 pm
by 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 :)

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:54 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:00 pm
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:44 pm
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:21 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:12 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:53 pm
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:38 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:00 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:22 pm
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:57 am
by ggordon

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:52 pm
by AvastMH
Molgrave Hills Belvedere, ODHS 222, 23rd July 1897

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

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
Image


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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:16 pm
by 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

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:10 pm
by 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.

Re: Alaskan Place Names -- Discussion

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:20 pm
by Randi
Based on the date, I was probably working on setting up Tallapoosa, so the year would be between 1931 and 1937.