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The Kingcome River is a
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Clear River"
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The Kingcome River is a river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in the Canadian province
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of British Columbia
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. Its drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
is in size.
Course
The Kingcome River flows generally south intoKingcome Inlet Kingcome Inlet is one of the lesser principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast, north and east of Broughton Island. It is sixth in sequence of the major saltwater fjords north from the 49th parallel near Vancouver and similar in width, on av ...
, which lies north of and on the inland side of the Broughton Archipelago
Broughton Archipelago is a group of islands located at the eastern end of Queen Charlotte Strait in Mount Waddington Regional District, British Columbia. The archipelago is the traditional territory of the Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, Namgis, Ma'amt ...
. It has two major tributaries, the Atlatzi River joining the Kingcome near its mouth at , the Satsalla River, which like the Atlatzi flows southwest out of sources on the edge of the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield
The Ha-Iltzuk Icefield is an icefield in the central Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest icefield in the Coast Mountains south of the Alaska Panhandle, with an area of . It is located on the west s ...
, meeting the Kingcome at . Another smaller tributary, the Clear River, flows from the west, meeting the Kingcome at ,/ref>
See also
*List of British Columbia rivers
The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, organized by watershed. Some large creeks are included either because of size or historical importance
(See Alphabetical List of British Columbia rivers ). Also included are lakes th ...
*Kingcome (disambiguation) Kingcome may refer to:
People
*Brian Kingcome (1917–1994), British flying ace in World War II
*John Kingcome, (d.1871), British admiral and commander of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy
* William Kingcome, nephew of Admiral John Kingcome and ...
References
Rivers of the Central Coast of British Columbia Rivers of the Pacific Ranges {{BritishColumbia-river-stub