Information About

Port Tongass

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Port Tongass on The Map

Location

54 ° 46' 26" N,
130 ° 43' 37.999" W

Region

Ketchikan Gateway

Nearest City

Metlakatla

Port Tongass in Detail.

About

1.5 miles long. extends N between Tongass I. and mainland, Coast Mts.

History

Lieutenant Commander Nichols, U.S. Navy (USN), reported, in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 79), Port Tongass is a small harbor, ***." The Russians who used this harbor called it "Tlehonsiti." (Baker 1906 p. 632).