Point Seduction (located in the Lynn Canal, near Skagway)- Named for the "artful character of the Indians" in trying to persuade Joseph Whidbey (British expedition leader) to stay longer.
Nome - Cape Nome (near the city) received its name from an error, when a mapmaker copied a map annotation made by a British officer on a voyage up the Bering Strait. The officer had written "? Name" next to the unnamed cape. The mapmaker misread the annotation as "C. Nome", or Cape Nome, and used that name on his map.
Ford's Terror (steep and narrow fjord 60 miles southeast of Juneau in Alaska's Inside Passage) - named after a U.S.
Navy crewman named Ford who, in 1889, paddled into the narrow waterway at slack tide. The tide began to rise, forcing its way through the bottleneck entrance into the fjord, and Ford was trapped in the turbulent currents (surrounded by massive, crashing icebergs)for the next "terrifying" six hours.Port Lions (city on Kodiak Island) - Built to house the inhabitants of Ag'waneq from the neighboring island of Afognak and Port Wakefield from Raspberry Island, after their villages were destroyed by the Good Friday Earthquake in 1964. Port Lions was built with help from the U.S. government and the Lions Club. It was named in honor of the club.
Port Lions post office
Unalaska (city in the Aleutian Islands) - No, they DON'T think the rest of the state is uncool!
The native Unangan people, who were the first to inhabit the island of Unalaska, named it “Ounalashka” meaning ‘Near the Peninsula’. The name Unalaska is probably an English variation of this name.
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