Stikine River

Stikine River (56˚39'00" 131˚50'00" Flows SW across northern BC and the BC-Alaska boundary to enter the sea near Wrangell, Alaska). The name of BC’s fourth-longest river, at 589 km, is a Tlingit First Nation word that simply means “the river,” in the sense of “the definitive or great river.” Although European explorers have known it by that name since the end of the 18th century, the alternative names St Francis R and Pelly’s R are also found in early documents. The word Stikine...

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