Stikine River

river, North America
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Stikine River, stream in northwestern British Columbia, Can., and southeastern Alaska, U.S. It rises in several headstreams in the Stikine Ranges of northern British Columbia and flows in a wide arc west and southwest through narrow valleys often backed by towering, snowcapped mountains, skirting the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness and Mount Edziza provincial parks. It receives its largest tributary, the Iskut River, just before it empties into the Pacific Ocean north of Wrangell, Alaska, after a course of 335 miles (540 km). The Stikine was discovered in 1834 by John McLeod of the Hudson’s Bay Company. During the Klondike gold rush ...(100 of 152 words)