Southeast Alaska · AK
Angoon
The only town on Admiralty Island.
- Population
- 357 (2020 census)
- Bombardment
- 1882
- Incorporated
- 1963
Then
- 1878
A trading post and whaling station opens on nearby Killisnoo Island.
- 1882
US naval forces destroy the village in October after demanding 400 blankets.
- 1928
Killisnoo burns, and many Tlingit return to Angoon.
- 1973
Angoon wins a $90,000 settlement over the 1882 attack.
Now
Fishing remains the mainstay. This place covers Admiralty Island's south and west coasts and Warm Spring Bay on Baranof.
23 tide stations around Angoon
- Favorite Bay1.7 mi
- Killisnoo2.1 mi
- Target Island, Mitchell Bay6.7 mi
- Mitchell Bay7.3 mi
- Point Thatcher11.4 mi
- Fairway Island11.6 mi
- Lindenburg Head17.0 mi
- Whitewater Bay, Admiralty Island18.3 mi
- Cannery Cove, Pybus Bay21.4 mi
- Kasnyku Bay22.1 mi
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- Gambier Bay (cannery wharf)23.2 mi
- Rasp Ledge, Seymour Canal23.8 mi
- Eliza Harbor, Admiralty Island24.1 mi
- Good Island, Gambier Bay25.5 mi
- Eliza Harbor, Liesnoi Island25.5 mi
- Herring Bay27.7 mi
- Baranof, Warm Spring Bay29.7 mi
- The Brothers32.5 mi
- Saginaw Bay, Kuiu Island42.4 mi
- Port Houghton, Robert Islands43.8 mi
- Cleveland Passage, Whitney Island44.4 mi
- Red Bluff Bay44.6 mi
- Portage Bay, Kupreanof Island58.6 mi