Cape Upright

Cape Upright in Detail.

13 mi. E of Sugarloaf Mtn., on SE tip of St. Matthew I

Named by Captain Cook (1785, p. 438), on July 29, 1778, who wrote "It was the South East extremity, and formed a perpendicular cliff of considerable height; on which account it was called Point Uprigh***." Cook later refered to it as "Cape Upright" (p. 491). The name was transliterated on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1427 (1849) as "M(ys) Uprayt," and translated by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 20) to "M(ys)Otvysnoy." G. A. Sarichev calls it "Mys Pik," i.e. "Cape Peak," in 1826.