Taiya Inlet
| Taiya Inlet | ||
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 View from the Chilkat Peninsula to the confluence of the Taiya Inlet and Chilkoot Inlet |
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| Waters | Chilkoot Inlet | |
| Land mass | North America | |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 20 ′ N , 135 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
| length | 22 km | |
| Tributaries | Taiya River , Skagway River | |
The Taiya Inlet is in a valley of the Coast Mountains located bay ( estuary ) in the panhandle of Alaska .
It runs south from the mouth of the Taiya River at Dyea to Chilkoot Inlet , an arm of the Lynn Canal . The former gold rush town of Skagway is on the east bank of the bay.
The name of the Tlingit for the bay was documented in 1868 by Commander Meade of the United States Navy as Tyya or Tya and published in 1870 by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey . In 1883 Aurel and Arthur Krause recorded the name Dejah Inlet , while Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka - also in 1883 - reported on Dayay Inlet .
During the Klondike gold rush at the end of the 19th century, the waterway to the land routes to the Klondike River via the Chilkoot or White Pass through the Taiya Inlet.
The bay is used by the ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway .
