Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1906 |
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Admiralty island Alaska peninsula Alexander archi Alexander archipelago ander archipelago Arctic coast Baranof island Behm canal Bering sea Bucareli bay called chart Chatham strait Clarence strait Coast Pilot Coast Survey Cook inlet Copper river cove Descriptive name east eastern Alaska eastern Aleutians eastern shore Eskimo name Eskimo village feet high fork Geological Survey glacier gulch harbor islet Kodiak Kuskokwim lake latitude 65 longitude 165 Lutke mainland Maurelle and Quadra middle Aleutians miles north mountain mouth Name from Barnard Name published named by Nichols named by Thomas named by Vancouver Native name north of Nome north shore northeast northern pelago Peril strait Petrof point of entrance Port Prince of Wales Prince William sound Prospectors reported by Gerdine Revillagigedo island right bank rock Russian Schrader Seward peninsula Shumagin Sitka sound southeastern Alaska southern shore Tanana Tebenkof tributary tude Unalaska Vasilief Veniaminof Wales archipelago Wales island western Wrangell Yukon delta
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Seite 54 - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900,
Seite 685 - The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost of publication; the others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may be had on application. The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified into the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, Systematic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and physics; F, Geography;...
Seite 12 - Accents should not generally be used, but where there is a very decided emphatic syllable or stress, which affects the sound of the word, it should be marked by an acute accent.
Seite 5 - To it shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the Departments, and the decisions of the Board are to be accepted by the Departments as the standard authority in such matters.
Seite 5 - ... desirable that uniform usage in regard to geographic nomenclature and orthography obtain throughout the Executive Departments of the Government, and particularly upon the maps and charts issued by the various Departments and Bureaus, I hereby constitute a Board on Geographic Names, and designate the following persons, who have heretofore...
Seite 686 - Fitch. 1900. 141 pp., 1 pi. 181. Results of primary triangulation and primary traverse, fiscal year 1900-1901, by HM Wilson, JH Renshawe, EM Douglas, and KU Goode. 1901. 240 pp., 1 map. 183. Gazetteer of Porto Rico, by Henry Gannett. 1901.
Seite 12 - Foochow but is slightly different from above as in law. is the sound of the two Italian vowels, but is frequently slurred over, when it is scarcely to be distinguished from ey in the English they.
Seite 580 - ... other. We found, a little way from the shore where we landed, a sledge, which occasioned this name being given to the island...
Seite 22 - Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1884, by Capt. MA Healy, USRM, Commander, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1899, pp. 47-128; and Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1885, by Capt.
Seite 60 - Klias region in 1890. In the latter year he explored Malaspina glacier and Yakutat bay under the auspices of the National Geographic Society and the United States Geological Survey. This work he continued in 1891. For an account of the work of 1890, see National Geographic Magazine, Vol. Ill, pp. 53-203 ; and for that of 1891 se« Thirteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part II, pp.