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Eastern Passage (Alaska)
Eastern Passage
is a channel in
Southeast Alaska
,
U.S.A
. It extends southeast from the mouth of the
Stikine River
to
The Narrows
, separating the northeastern half of
Wrangell Island
from the mainland. It was named in 1877 by
William Healy Dall
of the
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
. It was first traversed and charted in 1793 by
James Johnstone
, one of
George Vancouver
's officers during his
1791-95 expedition
.
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