Alaska Gazetteer
Whiting River is a physical feature (stream) in Juneau Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Whiting River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | Incomplete record. 50 miles long. Heading in British Columbia at 582000N, 1323000W, at the junction of a number of streams draining from Canadian glaciers and flowing southwest across the international boundary to Gilbert Bay, 33 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts. |
| History: | Named in 1888 by Lt Comander C M Thomas, U.S. Navy (USN), for assistant surgeon Robert Whiting, U.S. Navy (USN), a member of his surveying party. The name was published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 149). |
| Borough: | Juneau Borough |
| Latitude: | 57.9572219849 |
| Longitude: | -133.881668091 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Whiting River: Whiting River.
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| Taku Harbor, AK (9.1 miles NNW) |
