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Nepean

American  
[nuh-pee-uhn] / nəˈpi ən /

noun

  1. a former city in SE Ontario, Canada, now part of Ottawa.


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The flooding danger was highest along the Hawkesbury River, in northwest Sydney, and the Nepean River in Sydney’s west.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022

Flood warnings remain in place for the Bellinger, Macleay, Manning, Hunter, Georges, Paterson and Williams Rivers and the Hawkesbury Nepean Valley across the state.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2022

Three men were hospitalized after the blast Thursday in the Canadian capital’s Nepean area, and authorities were searching for five other people, Ottawa police said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

MacLean became paraplegic after an eight-ton truck hit his bicycle while he was training for the Nepean Triathlon in 1988.

From Reuters • Jun. 3, 2020

Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels at the Cape of Good Hope, who writes from Capetown on December 20th, 1801, to Evan Nepean, Esq.,

From Privateers and Privateering by Statham, E. P.