Nelson Rapids is a very prominent feature located on the North Seal River just west of Egenolf Lake

Egenolf Lake

Egenolf Lake is a lake in north Manitoba 75 kilometres south of the provincial border with the Northwest Territories, Canada. Egenolf measures almost twenty miles long, offering shallow bays, deep holes, and other physical structures...

, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, which occur in a narrow section where the river is approximately 75 meters wide. The entire length of the rapids is nearly 700 meters.

Nelson Rapids is named after a Canadian war casualty, Private Loren Nelson from Sprague, Manitoba. Loren Nelson died near Werlte, Germany on 10 April 1945.