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Nimpkish River

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Country
  
Length
  
118 km

Province
  
Source
  
Mouth elevation
  
0

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Region
  
Main source
  
Mount Alston1,415 m (4,642 ft)

River mouth
  
Broughton Strait0 m (0 ft)

Nimpkish river the slot may 26 2013


The Nimpkish River is a river in northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the longest river on the Island, rising on the west slope of Mount Alston, flowing northwest into Nimpkish Lake and then north into the Broughton Strait at a point 8 km east of Port McNeill, just southwest of the town of Alert Bay on Cormorant Island.

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Steelhead fishing in the nimpkish river


Name origin

"Nimpkish" is an anglicization of the Kwak'wala name for the people of this area, the 'Namgis.

References

Nimpkish River Wikipedia