Tongass Island

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Tongass Iceland, formerly written Tonga Iceland, is an entity belonging to the United States of America island at the southern tip of the Alaska Panhandle, close to the border with Canada. The island was Fort Tongass, which was shortly after the Alaska Purchase, the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia when customs office for travelers who traveled from British Columbia waters to the Stikine River, built. This trade was of great importance during the Cassiar Gold Rush in the 1870s.

The island is located west of Port Tangass in Nakat Bay, near the Dixon Entrance and has a length of 0.8 miles. Commonly used was initially the name " Kut - tuk -wah " which was borrowed from one of the Alaska Native languages. The term Tongass Iceland is in use since 1891.

Tongass Iceland is origin of the Seattle totem pole, whose 1939/1940 created reproduction can be seen still in Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington. Merchants from Seattle, who were on an Alaskan expedition, stole him in September 1899 from a Tlingit village located on the island. The totem pole was erected on October 18, 1899, the anniversary of the Alaska Purchase in Seattle.

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