Description
Tanani is located on Tanani Bay, at head of Chilkoot Inlet, just S of Tanani Point, 14 mi. SW of Skagway, Coast Mts.
History
This is the name of a Tlingit Indian village said to mean "leaping place," reported by Aurel and Arthur Kruase (1883, map) and published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 200). In 1883 it consisted of three houses.