Stikine Sound is a body of water in the U.S. state of Alaska, 12 miles (19 km) north of Wrangell.[1] It was named by Mikhail Tebenkov. It forms where the Stikine River finally reaches salt walter. The delta of the river is the silted-up inland extension of this channel.[2] It is 4 miles (6.4 km) wide and about 20 miles (32 km) in length, with a large number of islands near its eastern end, and lying directly off the flats of the Stikine River.
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This arm of the sea is outlined by promontories of the mainland and by several islands.[2] Several anchorages are found in this sound. Ten fathoms is laid down on the east side of the southeast point of the large island, lying about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest by west from Point Highfield. On the northwest side of Vauk's Island, 2–3 miles (3.2–4.8 km) in extent, and lying 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Point Highfield, anchorage is noted. South of Vauk’s Island lie two islets off 'the mouth of Bath Harbor, lying 8 miles (13 km) west by south half south from Point Highfield. At the northwest point of Zarembo Island is a number of islets, and on the east side of them there is anchorage in eighteen fathoms.[3]
References
edit- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Coast Pilot of Alaska's Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of Alaska: From southern boundary to Cook's Inlet (1869)
- ^ United States Geological Survey 1908, p. 4.
- ^ a b Brooks, Abbe & Goode 1906, p. 40.
- ^ Coast Pilot of Alaska 1869, p. 88.
Bibliography
edit- Brooks, Alfred Hulse; Abbe, Cleveland; Goode, Richard Urquhart (1906). The Geography and Geology of Alaska: A Summary of Existing Knowledge (Public domain ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Coast Pilot of Alaska (1869). Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of Alaska: From southern boundary to Cook's Inlet (Public domain ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office.
- United States Geological Survey (1908). Bulletin (Public domain ed.). The Survey.