The Chilkat Range is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

in Haines Borough and the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

, west of the city of

Juneau The City and Borough of Juneau, more commonly known simply as Juneau ( ; tli, Dzánti K'ihéeni ), is the capital city of the state of Alaska. Located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle, it is a unified municipality and the s ...

. The Chilkat Range is one of the principal divisors between Haines Borough and

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. ...

. It also separates

Chilkat Inlet Chilkat Inlet is an inlet in Lynn Canal in the Southeast region of the U.S. state of Alaska that includes the delta for the Chilkat River and borders Haines and the Chilkat Peninsula. It was first charted in 1794 by Joseph Whidbey, master of dur ...

and

Lynn Canal Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska. Lynn Canal runs about from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage. At over in depth, Lynn Canal is the deepest fjord ...

from

Muir Inlet Muir Inlet is an inlet in Glacier Bay, U.S.A. ''Muir Inlet'' heads in Muir Glacier, and extends for south to Glacier Bay, NW of Hoonah, Alaska ''Muir Inlet'' is separated from Chilkat Inlet and Lynn Canal by Chilkat Range. ''Muir Inlet'' has ...

Glacier Bay Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980 ...

. The northern boundary is generally considered to be the Klehini River. The unnamed

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in the range also feeds many glaciers including the

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and Rainbow Glaciers. It was named Chilkat Mountains in 1879 by the

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for the Chilkat subdivision of the

Tlingit People The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively , pronounced ),

. These mountains were renamed as the Chilkat Range in 1891.

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Landforms of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska Mountain ranges of Alaska Mountains of Haines Borough, Alaska Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska {{HoonahAngoonAK-geo-stub

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