Description
Portage Cove is located on W shore of Chilkoot Inlet, just S of Nukdik Point, 16 mi. S of Skagway, Coast Mts.
History
Named Portage Bay, by local traders but the name was changed to Portage Cove by the U.S. Navy in 1881, and this form was published by US@C&GS in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 199).