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Chaahl 'O Knew a long beach

Chah-pekw a village at Stone Lagoon

Chah-pekw 'O Ket-'oh Stone Lagoon

Chkwe-ges 'O Rek-'eeen a rock in the Klamath below 'Rnr'

Chkwe-ges 'Wa-'aag a sea-stack, the larger of the Turtle Rocks near Patrick's Point

Cho-keek a place just upriver from Sregon; also called Sreg Pech

Cho-keek 'WeRoy the creek at Chokik

Chue-lue Bald Hills

Chue-rew Trinidad, Tsurai, the Indian town at Trinidad

Chue-re-wa' Trinidad Head (a large rounded promontory at Trinidad, almost separated from the mainland)

Chue-rey Trinidad, Tsurai, the Indian town at Trinidad

Hehl-keek 'WeRoy Klamath River

Hehl-kue Serr Maynot Creek

Hee-neg a Tolowa town on Smith River, Smith River

Hee-wow a house in Rek'woy

Ho We-goh a flat near the Klamath

Hokt-kehl a promontory on the north side of Trinidad Head

Hop-'ew a village in the current location of Klamath

Hop-'ew Puel 'WeRoy a gully upriver from Hop'ew

Hop-'ew 'WeRoy a creek downriver from Hop'ew

Huep-'oo Hupa

Ke-nek a village on the Klamath

Ke-nek Puel a village downriver from Kenek

Ke-nek 'WeRoy Tuley Creek

Key-kem a village on the Klamath

Keehl 'O Tep Hee-meyr a fishing place on the Klamath

Keehl 'O Tep 'WeRoy a creek on the Klamath

Knet-ken 'O Loo a large boulder in the Klamath downstream from Muurekw

Knew-sep a long prairie

Knuehl a fishing place (where there is deep water) off Moore's Rock

Koh-pey Crescent City, site of Crescent City

Kerr-neet 'Wo'Ol' Little Trinidad Head (a promontory near Trinidad Head)

Le-gep-'ew a hole or cave on the southwest side of Trinidad Head

Me-leg a sea-stack between 'O Segen and the mouth of the Klamath

Me-weehl 'O Le-gehl Cann's Prairie (on the ridge of the Bald Hills above the mouth of Redwood Creek)

Me-wo-me-kwehl a flat area by Trinidad Head, now a parking lot

Mue-rekw a village on the Klamath

Ne-go-no' a place below Keykem

Nohch-kueh a village on the Klamath

Nohch-kueh Hee-koh a place across the river from Nohchkuh

Pe-kwon Pecwan (a village on the Klamath)

Pe-kwon 'WeRoy Pecwan Creek

Pekw-tehl

Pekw-tuehl a village between the Klamath and Trinity where they meet

Pe-leen Kerr-cherh the ridge above Pekwtuhl

Pluel' Fish Lake, on the mountain above Weitchpec and Bluff Creek

Poy-koh 'O Lep a knoll just north of Big Lagoon

Prgeesh 'O Chye-guuekw' a sea stack near 'R Hlrgr'

Pue-leek Serr-nery Hunters Creek

Raa-yeep a pebbly beach at the south end of 'E'goo, by Trinidad Head

Rek'-woy Requa

Sa-'ahl a village along the Klamath

Sreg Hee-koh a place across from Sregon

Sreg Pech a place just upriver from Sregon; also called Chokik

Sreg Pue-lekw a place just downriver from Sregon

Sreg Won a place just uphill from Sregon

Sre-gon a village on the Klamath

Sre-por a village site south of Churey

Srperh a village along the Klamath

Stoo-wen a village along the Klamath

Sue-meeg Patrick's Point

Tee-kwoh a place uphill from Keykem (formerly a prairie, now overgrown)

Tee-kwoo the promontory between Stone Lagoon and Freshwater Lagoon

Tmery 'WeRoy Cannery Creek

Twehl-keyr a place along the Klamath above Srpr'

Wah-sekw a village on the Klamath, Martin's Ferry

Wa's-'ey a village at Young's Bar

Wech-pekw' a spring at Wechpus

Wech-pues Weitchpec (the town), a point projecting from the north side of the river into the Klamath estuary

Wehl-kwew a village across the river from Rek'woy

'Espew a village on the coast between Redwood Creek and the Klamath

'Espew 'O Ket-'uel' the lagoon at 'Espew

'E'goo a beach north of Trinidad Head

'Lep-toyhl 'O Pkwe-gech a reef north of Churey

'O Chaahl a village site on the Klamath

'O Chaahl 'WeRe-pokw a place

'O Kaa a mountain above the Klamath

'O Kaa 'O Ket-'uel' a lake on 'O Kaa

'O Ke-gep a spring near 'O Men 'We Roy, a sea-stack near Elk Point, north of Churey

'O Ke-get-'oh a place on the sandbar by Big Lagoon

'O Ke-gey Goat Rock (a ridge between Stone Lagoon and Big Lagoon)

'O Ket-'oh Big Lagoon, a town on Big Lagoon

'O Ket-'uel' Big Lagoon

'O Kne-get a large sea-stack just south of the mouth of the Klamath, Flint Rock Head (a conspicuous promontory south of the mouth of the Klamath), a crag on a cliff at the north of Patrick's Point, a rock in the ocean near the mouth of Luffenholtz Creek

'O Kwe-ges sand dunes south of the mouth of Little River

'O Le-gew a place on the east side of Trinidad Head

'O Men a town along the coast north of Rek'woy

'O Men Hee-puer a village north of 'O Men

'O Men 'WeRoy Wilson Creek

'O Pe-geesh a beach north of 'Espew

'O Ple-goh a Hupa town (Ta'k'yimił-diŋ "where they stir acorn mush")

'O Pyuue-weg a village on the south shore of Big Lagoon

'O Re-gos Tucker Rock (a rock at the mouth of the Klamath River)

'O Rew a fishing place across from Weitchpec, where the current formerly struck the south shore, a bank downstream of 'Rnr', a camp-site or town on Redwood Creek, about 4 miles from the coast, just before Chilula land, a rock in Karuk territory

'O Sche-gep' the boat landing at Rek'woy, a reddish cliff north(west) of the mouth of the Klamath, a site with house-pits somewhere north of Stone Lagoon, a rock by the landing spot at Churey

'O Se-gen a village on the coast between 'Espew and the mouth of the Klamath

'O Se-gen 'WeRoy a creek at 'O Segen

'O Se-geesh a flat area along the Klamath near Wohkero'

'O Shyer-gerysh near Elk Point, "a sea rock, with two points"

'O Sle-goych a place where a trail descends, a declivity

'O Slookw a site on the northeast shore of Big Lagoon

'O Te-guuekw a flat rock near Pekwon on the south side of the Klamath

'O Tme-kwor a village at the north end of Redwood Lagoon

'O Toh-pew a natural archway under Krrnit 'Wo-'O'l (Little Trinidad Head)

'Oohl 'O Chyuue a cliff overlooking the Klamath River

'O'rekw mouth of Redwood Creek, a village to the south of Redwood Lagoon (Orick)

'O'rekw 'WeRoy Redwood Creek

'R Hler-ger' False Klamath Rock

'Rner' a village along the Klamath

'Er-ner' 'We-Roy Blue Creek

'UKwe-won the beach between Trinidad Head and Little Trinidad Head

'Yoch Le-gaay a ridge above 'O Men 'We-Roy

'Yoch 'O Ke-gey a place on the sand barrier between Freshwater Lagoon and the ocean