Information About

Taku Harbor

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Taku Harbor on The Map

Location

58 ° 4' 10.999" N,
134 ° 0' 34.999" W

Region

Juneau

Nearest City

Juneau

Elevation

190 ft (57.91 m)

Taku Harbor in Detail.

About

on E shore of Taku Harbor, 22 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.

History

Former Tlingit Indian village or camp, collectively listed as four Taku-kon villages, population 269, in the 1880 Census by Ivan Petroff. In 1908 J. R. Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), published the name as "Takokakaan" (Hodge, 1910, p. 675).