Description
Sturgeon River is located heads at 572700N1541500W flows SW and NW to Shelikof Strait, 3.5 mi. SW of Karluk, on W coast of Kodiak I.
History
Translation by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (USBF) in 1888 of the Russian name "R(eka) Shipinskaya" published by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 22), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN).