Seymour Canal is an inlet penetrating deep into the southeastern part of

Admiralty Island Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, at . It is long and wide with an area of , making it the seventh-largest island in the United States and the 132nd largest island in the world. It is one of the ...

, Southeast Alaska,

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. The inlet was first charted in 1794 by

Joseph Whidbey Joseph Whidbey FRS (1757 – 9 October 1833) was a member of the Royal Navy who served on the Vancouver Expedition 1791–95, and later achieved renown as a naval engineer. He is notable for having been the first European to discover and char ...

, master of during George Vancouver's 1791–95 expedition. Vancouver later named it "Seymour's Channel". Two large islands are located within it: Swan Island to the north, and Tiedeman Island just to its south.

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Inlets of Alaska Bodies of water of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska {{HoonahAngoonAK-geo-stub