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Tezwa River

Coordinates: 53°04′11″N 127°48′38″W / 53.06972°N 127.81056°W / 53.06972; -127.81056
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The Tezwa River is a river in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kitlope River drainage, feeding that river via the head of Kitlope Lake.[1]

Name

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The name was created by Frank Swannell, government surveyor, in 1921, suggesting that as a form easier to pronounce for Europeans than the Haisla name told him by a native he met along the Kitlope River, Hwuis-u-tezwa. On a map of the same year he used Hwuis-y-yez-wa River.[2]

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References

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53°04′11″N 127°48′38″W / 53.06972°N 127.81056°W / 53.06972; -127.81056