Description
Heads in British Columbia, Canada at 571430N, 1281900W on Munt Umbach and flows through Tuaton Lake circling N, W, and S to cross the Alaska-Canada boundary into Alaska 10 mi S of Mount Gallatin and reach the sea at Eastern Passage 8 mi N of Wrangell, Alex. Arch.
History
Tlingit Indian name meaning "Great River" reported in 1799 as "Stikine River" by Captain Rowan, of the whaling ship Eliza out of Boston, Mass. Published in 1848 on Russian Hydrographic Dept. Chart 1396 as "Ryka Stakhin" or "Stakhin River." The present spelling of the name was adopted in 1869 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS).