Alaska Gazetteer
Alsek River is a physical feature (stream) in Yakutat Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Alsek River |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | Heads in Canada and flows south 240 miles to Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay, 49 miles southeast of Yakutat; St. Elias Mountains. |
| History: | "native name reported by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""R(eka) Alsekh,"" or ""Alsekh River.: Behring"" by La Perouse in 1786, ""Jones River"" by the New York Times Expedition in 1886, and ""Harrison River"" by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in 1890. The name ""Alsek River"" was originally adopted by the United States and Canada in 1891." |
| Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
| Latitude: | 59.1277770996 |
| Longitude: | -138.620559692 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Alsek River: Alsek River.
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