The Asseek River is a river in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing north out of the Pacific Ranges to enter saltwater at the head of

South Bentinck Arm South Bentinck Arm is a long side-inlet of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. At the north end of the arm it meets the North Bentinck Arm and then the Dean Channel before flowing into the Burke Channel. Rivers T ...

. The name has been used since 1930, but an earlier map from 1913 shows it as the Talolail River. Also entering South Bentinck Arm a few miles north on the east side of the inlet is the

Taleomey River The Taleomey River is a river in the northernmost Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing west to South Bentinck Arm where its waters enter the sea a few miles north of the head of tha ...

, whose estuary forms Taleomey Narrows, a constriction of the inlet, and also where is the location of Taleomy Indian Reserve No. 3 of the

Nuxalk Nation The Nuxalk Nation is the band government of the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. It is a member of the Wuikinuxv-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council, and until March 2008 was a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. ...

. Another constriction south of the Taleomey estuary, and immediately north of the Asseek's mouth is Bentinck Narrows, which is formed by the alluvial fan of Ickna Creek. There was a Nuxalk village named ''Aseik'' in the area of the Asseek's mouth, as was also ''Koapk''.''The Indian Tribes of North America'', John Swanton, 1953, quoted in canadiangeneaology.net website
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Rivers of the Central Coast of British Columbia Rivers of the Pacific Ranges {{BritishColumbiaCoast-river-stub

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