Stikine Sound

Stikine Sound is a body of water in the U.S. state of Alaska, 12 miles north of Wrangell. 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. It is 4 miles wide and about 20 miles in length, with a large number of islands near its eastern end, and lying directly off the flats of the Stikine River.

This arm of the sea is outlined by promontories of the mainland and by several islands. 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 northwest by west from Point Highfield. On the northwest side of Vauk's Island, 2 - 3 miles in extent, and lying 5 miles west of Point Highfield, anchorage is noted. South of Vauk’s Island lie two islets off 'the mouth of Bath Harbor, lying 8 miles 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.