Nass River

Nass River at Gitwinksihlkw

Course of the Nass River

Wet is a tlingitisches word that roughly corresponds to the translation " stockpile ".

It rises in the Skeena Mountains and flows after 380 km in the wet Bay. Only the last 40 km of the Nass River is navigable. The average discharge is about 780 m³ / s

The river is also located in the danger zone of the active volcano Tseax Cone. In the event of an outbreak of the river would be dammed at high risk would also be so, at least in the short term, a disaster for the local salmon fishing.