Nelson River
The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs 644 kilometres before it ends in Hudson Bay near Port Nelson.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Nelson.
Port Nelson
Locality
Port Nelson is a ghost town on Hudson Bay, in Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Nelson River. Its peak population in the early 20th century was about 1,000 people. Port Nelson is situated 6 km west of Nelson River.
Nelson River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river that flows from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson’s Bay
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Manitoba, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Nelson River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nelsonrivier”
- Armenian: “Նելսոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Nelson”
- Belarusian: “Нельсан”
- Belarusian: “Нэлсан”
- Belarusian: “Рака Нельсан”
- Bengali: “নেলসন নদী”
- Breton: “Nelson”
- Bulgarian: “Нелсън”
- Catalan: “riu Nelson”
- Catalan: “Riu Nelson”
- Cebuano: “Nelson River”
- Chinese: “納爾遜河”
- Chuvash: “Нельсон”
- Croatian: “Nelson”
- Czech: “Nelson”
- Danish: “Nelson River”
- Dutch: “Nelson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر نيلسون”
- Estonian: “Nelsoni jõgi”
- Finnish: “Nelsonjoki”
- French: “fleuve Nelson”
- French: “Fleuve Nelson”
- French: “Nelson”
- Georgian: “ნელსონი”
- German: “Nelson River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Νέλσον”
- Hebrew: “נהר נלסון”
- Irish: “Abhainn Nelson”
- Italian: “Nelson”
- Japanese: “ネルソン川”
- Korean: “넬슨강”
- Latin: “Nelson (flumen)”
- Latin: “Nelson”
- Latvian: “Nelsona”
- Lithuanian: “Nelsonas”
- Mingrelian: “ნელსონი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ნელსონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson”
- Norwegian: “Nelson”
- Persian: “رود نلسون”
- Polish: “Nelson River”
- Polish: “Nelson”
- Portuguese: “Rio Nelson”
- Romanian: “Râul Nelson”
- Russian: “Нельсон”
- Serbian: “Нелсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson”
- Slovenian: “Nelson River”
- Slovenian: “Nelsonova reka”
- Spanish: “Nelson River”
- Spanish: “Nelson”
- Spanish: “rio Nelson”
- Spanish: “río Nelson”
- Spanish: “Río Nelson”
- Swedish: “Nelsonfloden”
- Turkish: “Nelson Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
- Venetian: “Fiume Nelson”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Nelson”
- Welsh: “Afon Nelson”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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