| 词条 | Nass River |
| 释义 |
| name = Nass River | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = | image = Nassriver-1.jpg | image_caption = View west on Nass River at Gitwinksihlkw | map = Northwest-relief NassRiver.jpg | map_size = 300 | map_caption = Location map of the Nass River | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_size = 300 | pushpin_map_caption= | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Canada | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = British Columbia | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = | length = {{convert|380|km|mi|abbr=on}}[1] | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= Mouth[2] | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = {{convert|770|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}} | discharge1_max = | source1 = Nass Lake[3] | source1_location = Klappan Range, Skeena Mountains | source1_coordinates= {{coord|57|9|59|N|129|6|8|W|display=inline}}[3] | source1_elevation = {{convert|1058|m|abbr=on}}[4] | mouth = Nass Bay | mouth_location = Portland Inlet | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|54|58|37|N|129|53|22|W|display=inline,title}}[5] | mouth_elevation = | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = {{convert|20839|km2|abbr=on}}[6] | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }} The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It flows {{convert|380|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the Coast Mountains southwest to Nass Bay, a sidewater of Portland Inlet, which connects to the North Pacific Ocean via the Dixon Entrance. Nass Bay joins Portland Inlet just south of Observatory Inlet.[7][8] The English name "Nass" is derived from the Tlingit name Naas which means "intestines" or "guts" in reference to the river's large food capacity in its fish (Naish & Story 1963; Leer, Hitch, & Ritter 2001). The Nisga'a name for the river is K'alii Aksim Lisims "Lisims (river name) Valley". The Gitxsan name is Git-Txaemsim meaning People of Txeemsim (Raven or Trickster); Xsitxemsem in the dialect of the Gitanyow). Lisims means "murky" in Nisga'a, referring to the river's silt-laden flow.[5] The last {{convert|40|km|mi|abbr=on}} of the river are navigable. The river is a commercially valuable salmon fishery. The basin of the Nass is the location of the first modern-day treaty settlement in British Columbia, between the government of that province and the Nisga'a Nation. The name Nisga'a is a reduced form of {{IPA-sal|naːsqaʔ|}}, which is a loan from Tongass Tlingit, where it means "people of the Nass River".[9]{{Better source|reason=Unpublished thesis not available via any dissertation database or Google search|date=August 2016}} HistoryAbout 220 years ago, as recorded by the oral history of the Nisga'a people, the Nass River was dammed by a 22.5 km long lava flow which came from the Tseax Cone and destroyed the Nisga'a villages and caused the death of at least 2000 Nisga'a people by volcanic gas and poisonous smoke. The volcano has been active on at least two occasions (220 and 650 years ago) in the last millennium. Because of our knowledge of this previous disaster, modern monitoring techniques should include studies of the gases emitted by the volcanoes and the institution of a warning system to alert people living down slope from the volcanoes. HazardsIf the Tseax Cone were to erupt again, there could be a repeat of the poisonous gas disaster that happened to the Nisga'a people 220 years ago. The eruption could also cause forest fires and could potentially dam local rivers such as the Nass River and the Tseax if the volume of the lava flows are large enough. If the lava flows were to again reach the Nass River, it could have disastrous short-term consequences for the important salmon fisheries on the Nass River system. TributariesThis is an incomplete list of tributaries, in upriver order:
See also
References1. ^Nass River {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507182813/http://bartleby.com/69/47/N01147.html |date=2005-05-07 }}, The Columbia Gazetteer of North America 2. ^Normal Runoff from British Columbia, Ministry of Environment, Water Stewardship Division 3. ^1 {{BCGNIS|39382|Nass Lake}} 4. ^Elevation derived from ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, using GeoLocator, and BCGNIS coordinates. 5. ^1 {{BCGNIS|27569|Nass River}} 6. ^{{cite book |title= Gazetteer of Canada |volume= British Columbia |publisher= Canadian Board on Geographic Names |year= 1953 |page= xv}} 7. ^{{BCGNIS|36089|Bay Point}} 8. ^{{BCGNIS|36867|Nass Point}} 9. ^Rigsby, Bruce "Nisga'a Etymology", ms. University of Queensland. 3 : Rivers of the North Coast of British Columbia|Nass Country|Rivers of the Boundary Ranges |
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