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Cassiar River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Cassiar River is a tributary of the Turnagain River in far northern British Columbia, flowing north to join the latter river southeast of Cry Lake. Its name is a reference to the Cassiar Land District, which it flows through the middle of and was the setting of the Cassiar Gold Rush of the 1870s.

Flows through: Canada.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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