Description
20 miles long. Heads at SE end of Takshanuk Mts., trends S to Lynn Canal S of Chilkat Is., 32 mi. S of Skagway, Coast Mts.
History
Named for the tribe of Tlingit Indians, who had a village at its head. It was called "False Chilkaht" or "Tschillkat Inlet" by Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 199). The estuary was called "Chilcoot Inlet" by Aurel and Arthur Krause (1883, map).