Cape Lutke is a headland on
Unimak Island, the largest
island in the
Aleutian Islands chain of the
U.S. state of
Alaska. It is located on the southern central coast of the island.
This headland was named Mys Litke, after Russian explorer Count
Fyodor Petrovich Litke
Fyodor, Fedor (russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian form of the name "Theodore" meaning “God’s Gift”. Fedora () is the feminine form. Fyodor and Fedor are two English transliterations of the same Russian name.
It may refer to:
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, by the
Imperial Russian Hydrographic Service in 1847. "Litke" is the Russian form of the German "Lütke", which is Anglicized as "Lutke".
This same point was called Mys Sivuchiy (meaning "
Sealion Cape" in Russian) by Capt.
Tebenkov in 1852, and Cape Promontory by the
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
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(USBF) in 1888.
References
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Unimak Island
Landforms of Aleutians East Borough, Alaska
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