Tongass Passage
Tongass Passage is a strait on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, located on the southwest side of Wales Island. Wales Island, and Pearse Island, to its northeast, were claimed by the United States prior to the settlement of the Alaska boundary dispute in 1903.Tongass Passage
- Type: Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
54.75059° or 54° 45′ 2″ northLongitude
-130.63963° or 130° 38′ 23″ westOpen location code
946FQ926+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 5710565257OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
6167625
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