Eastern Passage is a channel in

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. It extends southeast from the mouth of the

Stikine River The Stikine River is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. It drains a large, remote upland area known as the Stikine Country east of the Coast Mountains. Flowing west and south ...

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, separating the northeastern half of

Wrangell Island Wrangell Island (russian: Остров Врангеля) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska. It is long and wide. It has a land area of , making it the 29th largest island in the Unit ...

from the mainland. It was named in 1877 by

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of the

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. It was first traversed and charted in 1793 by James Johnstone, one of

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's officers during his 1791-95 expedition.

References

Straits of Alaska Straits of Wrangell, Alaska {{WrangellAK-geo-stub