South Bentinck Arm is a long side-inlet of

Dean Channel Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest inlets of the British Columbia Coast, from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. The Dean River, one of the main rivers of the Coast Mountains, enters Dean Channel about below the hea ...

in the Central Coast region of

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, Canada. At the north end of the arm it meets the

North Bentinck Arm North Bentinck Arm is a short inlet about in length in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is an arm of Burke Channel and is linked via that waterway and Labouchere Channel to Dean Channel, which is one of the largest inlets ...

and then the Dean Channel before flowing into the Burke Channel.

Rivers

The arm is fed by the Taleomey River, which flows from the Taleomey Glacier just north of the

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. The Taleomy Indian Reserve No. 3 lies on the west side of the rivers mouth next to the Taleomey Narrows. Just to the north is the Noeick River and the locality of South Bentinck on the east shore of the inlet.

Name origin

South and

s were named by

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, as "Bentinck Arms", in 1793, after the House of Portland; the

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at the time was William Henry Cavendish Bentinck.BC Names entry "South Bentinck Arm"
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References

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