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Hunter River

  

Река Хантер ( Hunter River)Hunter ( Hunter River) - River v. State New South Wales.

  

  


Length - 300 км, basin area - about 22 Thd. км. The sources are located okme slopes of Liverpool, Further, the river flows through the valley, located at 120-300 km north of Sydney and one of the largest plains on the coast of. Hunter falls in the Tasman Sea in the city Newcastle. The largest tributaries - the River Paterson and Williams.

The river was discovered by Europeans in the 1790s. In 1796 year near the mouth of the river was discovered coal. Until now, the port of Newcastle is the world's leading exporter of coal. The name of the river was in 1797 in honor of John Hunter, naval officer and governor of the colony of New South Wales.

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Yarra River

Река Ярра (Yarra River) Yarra (Yarra River) - River located on the southern Australian State Victoria.In the lower reaches of the river in 1835 he founded the city of Melbourne, the second largest city of the continent. During the gold rush in Victoria,the river and the hills around were the source of gold for many miners. For this reason, in many places the landscape has changed dramatically.

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Lake Argyle

Озеро Аргайл (Argyle)Lake Argyle (Argyle) is the second largest (volume) Australia and the artificial lake is located near the East Kimberley,штат Western Australia.

Lake Argyle has an area of ​​approximately 1000 square kilometers and is part of the river Ord. Currently, Lake irrigates approximately 150 square kilometers of agricultural land in the East Kimberley.

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