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Hoonah

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 6' 36" N,
135 ° 26' 37" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Elevation

75 ft (22.86 m)

Hoonah in Detail.

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About

population 686, on E shore of Port Frederick, 2.5 mi. S of Point Sophia, on Icy Strait, 40 mi. SW of Juneau, Alex. Arch.


History

This is the principal Huna village. The Huna (Hoonah), a Tlingti tribe in the Cross Sound area, camp in the summer from here northward to Lituya Bay. This village was called "Gaudekan" (Kantukan), meaning "bell town," its population was 800 in 1880, 447 in 1900, 462 in 1910, 402 in 1920, 514 in 1930, 716 in 1939, and 563 in 1950. The Hoonah post office was established in 1901 and thus was responsible for giving the village its presen t name.

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Sandhill Crane, Surfbird, American Crow, Black Turnstone, White-winged Crossbill, Common Murre, Barrow's Goldeneye, Least Sandpiper, Mallard, Common Gull, Pelagic Cormorant, Greater Scaup, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red-breasted Merganser, Pacific Loon, Bohemian Waxwing, Green-winged Teal, Western Sandpiper, Glaucous-winged Gull, Varied Thrush, Black Scoter, Common Merganser, Cedar Waxwing, Dark-eyed Junco, Bufflehead, Common Raven, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Greater White-fronted Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Lincoln's Sparrow, Surf Scoter, Rock Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Black-legged Kittiwake, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Rufous Hummingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Bonaparte's Gull, Red-tailed Hawk, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Red Crossbill, Pine Siskin, Townsend's Warbler, Canada Goose, Northern Shoveler, Harlequin Duck, Common Goldeneye, Horned Grebe, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitcher, Long-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Sandpiper, Pigeon Guillemot, Caspian tern, Yellow-billed Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Bald Eagle, Great Horned Owl, Tree Swallow, Common Starling, Swainson's Thrush, Evening Grosbeak, Common Redpoll, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Snow Goose, Cackling Goose, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, White-winged Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Hooded Merganser, Red-necked Grebe, Eurasian Collared Dove, Vaux's Swift, Anna's Hummingbird, Black Oystercatcher, Wilson's Snipe, Wandering Tattler, Marbled Murrelet, Rhinoceros Auklet, California Gull, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Red-throated Loon, Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Western Screech-Owl, Northern Pygmy-owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Steller's Jay, Black-billed Magpie, Violet-green Swallow, Barn Swallow, Brown Creeper, Pacific Wren, American Dipper, Buff-bellied Pipit, Pine Grosbeak, Purple Finch, Snow Bunting, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Western Tanager