The Little Swanson River is a

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. It is in the

James Bay James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost par ...

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, begins at an unnamed lake, and is a right tributary of the

Swanson River The Swanson River ( Dena'ina: ''Yaghetnu'') is a stream, long, on the Kenai Peninsula of south-central Alaska in the United States. Beginning at Gene Lake in the Swanson Lakes district, it flows southwest then north to Number Three Bay on the G ...

Course

The river begins in

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Racine Township and flows northeast through a series of small, unnamed lakes into geographic Floranna Township where it reaches Robson Lake. The river heads north into geographic Sadler Township, then geographic Lipsett Township, continues north, and reaches its mouth at the Swanson River. The Swanson River flows via the

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, the

Kapuskasing River The Kapuskasing River is a river in the James Bay drainage basin in Cochrane District and Algoma District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Shows the river course. The river is a left tributary of the Mattagami River. Course The river begins at ...

, the

Mattagami River The Mattagami River is a river in Northern Ontario, Canada. The Mattagami flows from its source at Mattagami Lake in geographic Gouin Township in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District, on the Canadian Shield southwest of Timmins, Lengt ...

and the Moose River to James Bay.

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