Seymour Inlet is one of the lesser traveled of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast

British Columbia Coast

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. Unlike larger inlets such as Knight

Knight Inlet

Knight Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast, and the largest of the major inlets in the southern part of the Coast...

 or Bute

Bute Inlet

Bute Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is 80 km long from its head at the mouths of the Homathko and Southgate Rivers to the continental headlands at its mouth, where it is nearly blocked by Stuart Island, and it averages about 4 km in width...

, it is not flanked by mountains but by relatively low, but still rugged, coastal hill-country and forms a maze of complex, narrow waterways and tidal pools and lagoons.

Its main arm is 75 kilometres in length from the mouth of the Seymour River to the mouth of its north arm, Belize Inlet, which is c. 50 km in length and has its own side inlets, narrow waterways named Wentworth Sound and Alison Sound. In between Belize Inlet and Seymour Inlet is Nugent Sound, named for the first U.S. Consul in Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia

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; Seymour Inlet itself is named for Frederick Seymour

Frederick Seymour

Frederick Seymour was a colonial administrator. He served as the second Governor of the Colony of British Columbia from 1864 to 1866, and the first governor of the union of the two colonies, also named the Colony of British Columbia from 1866 to 1869.Seymour was the son of Henry Augustus Seymour,...

, Governor

Governor

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 of the Crown Colony of British Columbia

United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

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 from 1864 to 1869.

Seymour Inlet has its own side-inlets, the largest being a south arm named Frederick Sound

Frederick Sound (Canada)

Frederick Sound is a sound in the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. it is the south arm and largest sidewater of Seymour Inlet and along with that inlet was named in honour of Frederick Seymour, second governor of the Colony of British Columbia. Frederick Sound has two inlets, one named...

 (also named for the governor), with a side-inlet of its own named Salmon Arm. Another is an unnamed inlet in the southwest corner, 12 km in length with its own side-inlets, including Nenahlmai Lagoon. Seymour Inlet does not open directly onto the Queen Charlotte Strait

Queen Charlotte Strait

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but is accessed via Slingsby Channel and Schooner Channel, which are the passages on either side of Bramham Island.