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Stikine River
The
Stikine River
is a river, historically also the
Stickeen River
, approximately 610 km (379 mi) long, in northwestern
British Columbia
in
Canada
and in southeast
Alaska
in the
United States
. Considered one of the last truly wild major rivers in
British Columbia
, it drains a rugged, largely pristine, area east of the
Coast Mountains
, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep
glacier
-lined gorges to empty into
Eastern Passage
, just north of
the city of Wrangell
, which is situated at the north end of
Wrangell Island
in the
Alexander Archipelago
.
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