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Per Secretary's Order 3423 and 3424, the change to use the names Gulf of America and Mount McKinley have been made. (Regarding the display base maps, the USGS is aware of issues occurring outside of CONUS and Alaska impacting country boundaries and ocean labels).

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38.8108209°, -95.5494690°, 5

Summary Report

Tongass Island

Feature Details

Feature ID

1415356

Name

Tongass Island

Class

Island

Feature Code

Island

Location

Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area - Alaska

Citation

Source Type	Text
Reference	AK
Originator
Notes
Distribution Date
Title
Edition
Original Citation	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.

Entry Date

March 31, 1981

*Elevation

28 meters / 92 feet

Designations

History

Local name published in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 79). The Indian nme "Kut-tuk-wah" was published in 1869 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS).

Description

W of Port Tongass, in Nakat Bay, NE Dixon Entrance, Coast Mts.

Census Code	Class Code	GSA Code	OPM Code
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Variant Names

Name	In Part	Originator	Reference	Series Name	Publication Date	Source URL	Title	Edition	Notes	Additional Information
Kut-tuk-wah Island	No	-	AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.
Tongas Island	No	-	AK	-	-	-	-	-	-	Orth, Donald J. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names generally including feature descriptions and often name origin information that are now applied and have been applied to places and features in Alaska. GNIS Library.

Decisions

Name	Date	Authority	Type

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Coordinates

Sequence	Coordinates	Map	State
1	54.7727778, -130.7394444 / 54° 46' 22.00" N, 130° 44' 22.00" W	Prince Rupert D-3 SE	AK

Government Units

Sequence	State or Equivalent	County or Equivalent
1	Alaska	Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area

Map

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38.8108209°, -95.5494690°, 19z