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Seymour Narrows
strait, British Columbia, Canada
Seymour Narrows, strait in Canada, between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, site in 1958 of a large-scale blast to remove the top of Ripple Rock, a submerged twin-peak.
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