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Sumner Strait is a strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is about Template:Convert long and Template:Convert wide, extending from the mouth of the Stikine River to Iphigenia Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, separating Mitkof Island, Kupreanof Island, and Kuiu Island on the north from Zarembo Island and Prince of Wales Island on the south.<ref name=gnis>Template:Gnis and Template:Gnis (two pages about the same feature)</ref>
The fur trader William Brown was the first European to visit the strait about 1793. Later the same year James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's officers during his 1791-95 expedition, charted it.<ref name=Vancouver1801>Template:Cite book</ref> It was named in 1875 by W. H. Dall in honor of Charles Sumner.<ref name=gnis/>
The Cape Decision Light is a notable aid-to-navigation on Sumner Strait.
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