 Location map of the Stikine River The Stikine River (sti-KEEN) is a river, approximately 335 mi (539 km) long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. Considered one of the last truly wild rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged pristine area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into an inlet in the Alexander Archipelago. The name of the river comes from its Tlingit name Shtax' Héen, meaning "cloudy river (with the milt of spawning salmon)", or alternately "bitter waters (from the tidal estuaries at its mouth)". Its watershed encompasses approximately 20,000 mi² (52,000 km²). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (660x660, 463 KB) based on Northwest-relief. ...
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Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 36 6 Area...
Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area Ranked 1st - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,854 km²) - Width 808 miles (1,300 km) - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km) - % water 13. ...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 36 6 Area...
The Coast Mountains are the westernmost range of the Pacific Cordillera, running along the south western shore of the North American continent, extending south from the Alaska Panhandle and covering most of coastal British Columbia. ...
A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity and undergoes internal deformation. ...
A MODIS photograph of the Alexander Archipelago The Alexander Archipelago is an archipelago, or group of islands, off the southeast coast of Alaska. ...
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Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals who reproduce by spraying milt onto roe (fish eggs). ...
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The Stikine river arises in the Spatsizi Plateau of the Stikine Ranges of northern British Columbia, and flows in a large northward arc through the mountains to the west and southwest, past Telegraph Creek. It passes through a steeply-cut gorge in the Boundary Ranges along the Canada-U.S. border, and above that the spectacular 60 mi (100 km) long and 1,000-ft (300-m) deep Grand Canyon of the Stikine. It briefly enters southeast Alaska for its lower 40 mi (64 km) to form a delta opposite Mitkof Island, approximately 25 mi (40 km) north of Wrangell at the confluence of Frederick Sound and Sumner Strait. Telegraph Creek, the only permanent settlement on the Stikine River, is home to approximately 350 members of the Tahltan native tribe, as well as another 50 white settlers, the majority of whom came to the village in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...
The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains. ...
Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ...
Mitkof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska, at 56°40 N 132°47 W. between Kupreanof Island to the west and the Alaska mainland to the east. ...
Wrangell is a city located in Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska. ...
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Sumner Strait is a strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. ...
An international river The outlet of the river is now in Alaska, but at the time of the boundary survey in 1901-03 it had been at the boundary; the lower part of the river has since filled in from aggradation. According to the terms of the treaty, as per prior usage by mining and commercial traffic in the Stikine, Canadian marine traffic technically has the right of navigation of this river from the sea, independent of US border controls, but this is no longer in practical effect through disuse and because of the relocation of the river's mouth. Aggradation in geology is the accumulation of sediment in rivers and nearby landforms. ...
Its main tributaries are, in descending order from source:
- Duti River
- Chukachida River
- Spatsizi River
- Pitman River
- McBride River
- Klappan River
- Tanzilla River
- Tuya River
- Tahltan River
- Chutine River
- Iskut River
History The river is navigable for approximately 130 mi (210 km) upstream from its mouth. It was used by the coastal Tlingit as a transportation route to the interior region. The first European to explore the river was Samuel Black, who visited the headwaters during his Finlay River expedition in 1824. It was more extensively explored in 1838 by Robert Campbell, of the Hudson's Bay Company, completing the last link in the company's transcontinental canoe route. In 1879 the lower third was travelled by John Muir who likened it to a Yosemite that was a hundred miles (160 kilometers) long. Muir recorded over 300 glaciers along the river's course. The Grand Canyon of the Stikine has been successfully navigated by a few expert whitewater kayakers. For the governor of the Nebraska Territory, see Samuel W. Black Samuel Black ca. ...
Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and then south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in 1968. ...
1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
| Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Robert Campbell ( 21 February 1808 – 9 May 1894) was a Hudsons Bay Company fur trader and explorer. ...
The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. ...
A canoe is a relatively small boat, typically human-powered, but also commonly sailed. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
John Muir (1838-1914) John Muir appears on the California quarter John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest modern preservationists. ...
Yosemite National Park (pron. ...
From 1897-1898 it furnished one of the principal routes to the Klondike gold rush in the Yukon Territory. The river today furnishes the primary route to the Cassiar mining region of northern British Columbia. The first bridge was built across the river in the 1970s as part of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. In 1980, BC Hydro began to study the feasibility of building a five-dam project in the Grand Canyon, however the plan quickly led to opposition by conservation groups and a long struggle over the fate of the river. The mouth of the river in the United States provides a habitat for migratory birds and is protected as part of the Stikine-LeConte Wilderness Area. 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek. ...
Motto: none Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Whitehorse Largest city Whitehorse Commissioner Jack Cable Premier Dennis Fentie (Yukon Party) Area 482,443 km² (9th) - Land 474,391 km² - Water 8,052 km² (1. ...
Cassiar is a ghost town in the province of British Columbia, Canada. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
British Columbia provincial highway 37, the Cassiar Highway, is the northwesternmost highway in the province, and it is very scenic, passing through some of the most isolated areas of B.C. The highway first gained its 37 designation in 1975, and at that time, its southern terminus was at the...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
BC Hydro is a public utility that is the major provider of electricity in British Columbia, Canada. ...
The river is noted for its prolific salmon runs despite heavy depletion by commercial fish traps during the early 20th century. The force of the current in the river's Grand Canyon limits the salmon runs to the lower one-third of the river. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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