It lies within the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, in the Unorganized Borough of Alaska.
Funter Bay was the site of a World War II internment camp for Aleuts[1] relocated 1500 miles from their homes.
"[2] The injustices they suffered were the subject of the US Congress' Aleut Restitution Act of 1988.
Funter Bay appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census[4] as an unincorporated area with 25 residents (described as a mining camp, though a cannery was also located here).
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