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Alaska’s ‘Nazi Creek’ is no more, as federal geographic names board approves traditional alternative

Posted 7/10/25

A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians. Nazi Creek was the last landmark in the United States to bear the Nazi name. Its new name is “Kaxchim Chiĝanaa,” meaning either […]

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