Seymour River (Seymour Inlet)

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The Seymour River, one of three by that name in the province of British Columbia, Canada, is a river in the Central Coast region, flowing south out of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains into the head of Seymour Inlet, the largest of a maze of inland waterways within a relatively low area of the British Columbia mainland on the northwest side of the Queen Charlotte Strait region.

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    Coordinates: 51°11′35″N126°40′21″W / 51.19306°N 126.67250°W / 51.19306; -126.67250 (Seymour River)