Commonly found place names mentioned in whaling logs
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:40 pm
I hope that this list will help folks new to whaling trips around the Arctic. At 7th Oct 2019 it is still in development, but I do hope that it will be helpful even so.
After checking the relevant area Reference topic, if you have found a new place name, or a new spelling of a place name, or an alternative name for a known place, please do put that information into the relevant discussion topic within the Geographical Help Board for propriome's care as the moderator of that board.
Many thanks.
Geographical Help Board.
Generally: places on the Eastern side of the Bering Sea come under Alaskan Place Names -- Reference and places on the Western side of the Bering sea come under Russian Place Names -- Reference
In addition you can look the for the place in the Arctic Whalers' Place-Names Gazetteer, but do not use the latitude and longitudes in your transcription log book!
In the Arctic:
'72 Pass'
Anadyr Sea
Bailey (Baillie) Islands
Cape Bathurst
Cape Beaufort
Cape Lisburne (Lisbon)
Cape Lutke
Cape Naverine, Cape Navarino, Cape Naveriene, Cape Naverin
Cape Prince of Wales (Prince of Whales)
Cape Romanzof/Romiantsoff/Rumiantzoff
Cape Serge (Serdze Kamen)
Cape Smith (Smythe)
Cape Thompson
Diomedes Islands (Diameads)
East Cape
False East Cape
Faraway/Fairway/Farewell Rock
Four Mountain Pass
Fox Islands
Herald Island
Herschel Island
Icy Cape
Indian Point
Kamchatka
King Island
Kotzebue Sound
Marcus Bay
Onelaska (Unalaska - see below)
Oogenak (53/4N, approx 156W (Fox Islands?)
Ounaslaska/Ounalashka
Plover Bay (Blubber Bay)
Point Barrow
Point Belcher (Point Belcer)
Sanak Island
Sand Spit (there are about three of these mentioned near other places)
Sea Horse Islands
Seguam Island, Seagram Island
Serdze Kamen (Cape Serge)
Smoky Hills
St Lawrence Island
St Matthew's Island
Teller (Reindeer Station)
Unalaska/Unalashka
USS Signal Station
Wainwright Inlet
Near San Francisco port:
Farallones
Reyes
Fort Point
Hawaiian Islands
Diamond Head
Hoko Head
Koko Head (coco Head)
Oahu
Maui
After checking the relevant area Reference topic, if you have found a new place name, or a new spelling of a place name, or an alternative name for a known place, please do put that information into the relevant discussion topic within the Geographical Help Board for propriome's care as the moderator of that board.
Many thanks.
Geographical Help Board.
Generally: places on the Eastern side of the Bering Sea come under Alaskan Place Names -- Reference and places on the Western side of the Bering sea come under Russian Place Names -- Reference
In addition you can look the for the place in the Arctic Whalers' Place-Names Gazetteer, but do not use the latitude and longitudes in your transcription log book!
In the Arctic:
'72 Pass'
Anadyr Sea
Bailey (Baillie) Islands
Cape Bathurst
Cape Beaufort
Cape Lisburne (Lisbon)
Cape Lutke
Cape Naverine, Cape Navarino, Cape Naveriene, Cape Naverin
Cape Prince of Wales (Prince of Whales)
Cape Romanzof/Romiantsoff/Rumiantzoff
Cape Serge (Serdze Kamen)
Cape Smith (Smythe)
Cape Thompson
Diomedes Islands (Diameads)
East Cape
False East Cape
Faraway/Fairway/Farewell Rock
Four Mountain Pass
Fox Islands
Herald Island
Herschel Island
Icy Cape
Indian Point
Kamchatka
King Island
Kotzebue Sound
Marcus Bay
Onelaska (Unalaska - see below)
Oogenak (53/4N, approx 156W (Fox Islands?)
Ounaslaska/Ounalashka
Plover Bay (Blubber Bay)
Point Barrow
Point Belcher (Point Belcer)
Sanak Island
Sand Spit (there are about three of these mentioned near other places)
Sea Horse Islands
Seguam Island, Seagram Island
Serdze Kamen (Cape Serge)
Smoky Hills
St Lawrence Island
St Matthew's Island
Teller (Reindeer Station)
Unalaska/Unalashka
USS Signal Station
Wainwright Inlet
Near San Francisco port:
Farallones
Reyes
Fort Point
Hawaiian Islands
Diamond Head
Hoko Head
Koko Head (coco Head)
Oahu
Maui
