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Tongass Island
View of steam sidewheel steamer Pacific taken from Fort Tongass, Tongass Island, US Military District of Alaska, 1868.
Tongass Island, historically also spelled Tongas Island, is an island in the southern Alaska Panhandle, near the marine boundary with Canada at 54–40 N. It was the site of Fort Tongass, which was established shortly after the Alaska Purchase as a customs port for travelers bound from British Columbian waters to the Stikine River, which was one of the main routes of access to the Cassiar Gold Rush of the 1870s. It lies west of Port Tongass in Nakat Bay, adjacent to the Dixon Entrance and is 0.8 miles in length. Its Native Alaskan name "Kut-tuk-wah" was published in 1869 by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; its current name was first published in 1891.
TongassIsland, historically also spelled Tongas Island, is an island in the southern Alaska Panhandle, near the marine boundary with Canada at 54–40...
endangered and rare flora and fauna. The Tongass, which is managed by the United States Forest Service, encompasses islands of the Alexander Archipelago, fjords...
the Tlingit people and the namesake of all other "Tongass" names. Tongass Highway TongassIslandTongass Narrows, a channel by Ketchikian, Alaska, which...
Fort Tongass was a United States Army base on TongassIsland, in the southernmost Alaska Panhandle, located adjacent to the village of the group of Tlingit...
who never visited Alaska. The entire island lies within the limits of Tongass National Forest. The western coastal portion has been officially designated...
Most of Admiralty Island—955,747 acres (3,868 km2)—is protected as the Admiralty Island National Monument administered by the Tongass National Forest....
when the United States government built a customs house and fort on TongassIsland and left the US revenue cutter Lincoln to patrol the area. After American...
the Gravina Island Bridge across the Tongass Narrows was shelved due to a national-level controversy over the "bridge to nowhere". Tongass Narrows is defined...
totem pole was carved in 1790 and raised in the Tlingit village on TongassIsland, Alaska to honor the Tlingit woman Chief-of-All-Women. The totem pole...
southernmost piece of AK-7 is known as the Tongass Highway and heads both ways from Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island. The ferry calls at Ketchikan. Within...
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Its habitat exists within the Tongass National Forest, which is part of the perhumid rainforest zone. The ABC Islands bears have the appearance of the...
Inlet Fort TongassTongassIsland "Tongass Passage". BC Geographical Names. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tongass Passage "Ketchikan...
were recovered from uninhabited Tlingit settlements on Village Island and TongassIsland, south of Ketchikan, as well as from the Haida village of Old...
Most of the island is public land managed by the Tongass National Forest. Pennock Island lies between Gravina Island and Revillagigedo Island at the eastern...
Narrows from the city of Petersburg on nearby Mitkof Island. The island lies within the limits of Tongass National Forest (Petersburg Ranger District). The...
The Tongass Timber Reform Act (TTRA) is an act that was intended to amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), with the primary...
The island is located within Fleming Channel, 12 mi (19 km) west of Chichagof Island, and is within the Tongass National Forest. Kinky Island is included...
making it the 15th largest island in the United States. The entire island is part of Tongass National Forest. The island's name comes from Kuiu Kwaan...
harbors included "Clemencitty" on TongassIsland, today called Port Tongass; the several "Kaigani" harbors on south Dall Island north of Cape Muzon, including...
second US Army post established in Alaska, the first being Fort Tongass on TongassIsland, immediately north of 54°40', but which was abandoned by 1870...
036 inhabitants Southeast Alaska includes the Tongass National Forest (which manages Admiralty Island National Monument and Misty Fjords National Monument)...
focus of the mill became the manufacture of paper. In September 1907, the Tongass National Forest was established, and by 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt...
its islands, and a narrow strip of rugged coastline that is biologically isolated from the rest of North America by the Coast Mountains. The Tongass National...
Island (Aleut: Unimax, Russian: Унимак) is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the easternmost island...
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