Information About

Situk River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Situk River on The Map

Location

59 ° 26' 7.001" N,
139 ° 32' 48.001" W

Region

Yakutat

Nearest City

Yakutat

Length

18 mi (28.97 km)

Situk River in Detail.

About

heads at Situk Lake, flows SW to Situk, 11 mi. SE of Yakutat, Malaspina Coastal Plain

History

Tlingit Indian name reported as "R(eka) Sitak" or "Sitak River" by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 7), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). It was spelled "Situk" by E. J. Glave in 1890, and "See-tuck" by Lieutenant Commander J. F. Moser, U.S. Navy (USN), in 1901.