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The Chilkat River is a river in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska that flows southward from its head in the Coast Range to its outlet at the Lynn Canal. It is about 80 km (50 miles) long. It begins at Chilkat Glacier , in Alaska, flows west and south in British Columbia for 27 km (17 miles), enters Alaska and continues southwest for another 60 km (37 miles). It reaches the ocean at the abandoned area of Wells, Alaska and empties into the Lynn Canal.
The river was named by the Russians for the Chilkat group of Tlingit who lived in the region. The name means "salmon storehouse".
