Tanu Island

Tanu Island (52˚45'00" 131˚40'00" Between Logan Inlet and Richardson Inlet, off E side of Moresby I, QCI), Tanu Passage (52˚45'00" 131˚44'00" Between Tanu I and Richardson I), Tanu Point (52˚44'00" 131˚42'00" SW end of Tanu I), Tanu Rock (52˚46'00" 131˚36'00" Off E end of Tanu I). Geologist George M Dawson named the island Tanoo in 1878, after the famous Eagle crest village on its eastern shore. While the preferred spelling today is T’aanuu, the variants Tannu, Tahnoo and Tanoo have...

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