The Yahtse River (

Tlingit The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively , pronounced ),

''Yas'ei Héen'') is a short glacier outlet stream extending from the

Malaspina Glacier __NOTOC__ The Malaspina Glacier (Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') in southeastern Alaska is the largest piedmont glacier in the world. Situated at the head of the Alaska Panhandle, it is about wide and long, with an area of some . Name The Lingít na ...

to the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

. The river formerly served as a primary outlet stream for the western portion of the

Malaspina Malaspina can refer to: ;People *The Italian noble Malaspina family. Members of this family include: **Albert Malaspina (1160/65 – 1206/12), Italian marquess. ** Conrad Malaspina (The Old) ( – after 1254), Italian nobleman. ** Spinetta Malaspin ...

. Following the retreat of the

Icy Bay Icy Bay (Tlingit: ''Lig̲aasi Áa'') is a body of water in the borough of Yakutat, Alaska, formed in the last 100 years by the rapid retreat of the Guyot, Yahtse, and Tyndall Glaciers. It is part of the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. At the ...

glaciers in the 20th century the outlet of the

shifted to the Caetani River draining into Icy Bay, and the Yahtse was almost completely abandoned by the early 21st century.A Revised and Extended Holocene Glacial History of Icy Bay, Southern Alaska, U.S.A. Author(s): David J. Barclay, Julie L. Barclay, Parker E. Calkin and Gregory C. Wiles Source: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 153-162

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Rivers of Alaska Rivers of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska {{Alaska-river-stub