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unusual facts about watercourse



Abbey River

It runs from the point opposite the midpoint of Penton Hook Island to below Chertsey Lock and forms half of the watercourse boundaries of Laleham Burway, a larger, artificial island which contains Laleham Golf Course and a fresh water waterworks.

Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno

While in the treaty of Río Bueno the Spanish had been allowed to form haciendas north of Bueno River, establishing that watercourse as a de facto frontier, the Spanish now went on to set up haciendas south of it.

Arroio das Caneleiras

The Arroio das Caneleiras is a watercourse which drains in the municipality of Pelotas, a town in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Balfour Downs Station

The mineral-rich grazing country includes extensive watercourse and channel country, opening onto large floodplains covered with Mitchell, Flinders, and buffel grass.

Barrage

Tidal barrage, an artificial obstruction at the mouth of a tidal watercourse

Bournville School

The school's badge depicts a Griffin (or Gryphon) segreant, wearing a mortarboard cap and brandishing a rolled Academic degree and draws its imagery from the school's proximity to the nearby traditional watercourse of Griffin's Brook, sadly now piped underground for most of its length.

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

It prefers pine-oak forests, semi-arid scrub and thickets along watercourses.

Claisebrook

Claise Brook, a watercourse which discharges into the Swan River at Claisebrook Cove

Drazhevo

By this time, the watercourse of the river Tonzos(Tunja) had been already moved 2–3 km in north.

Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

Positioned on a natural watercourse, Elizabeth Street has channeled flood waters during flash flooding south towards the Yarra River, in 1882, 1972 and more recently 2010 during the 2010 Victorian storms.

Gavleån

Gavleån, Gävleån or Gävle River is a watercourse in the middle Gästrikland of Sweden from Storsjön to Gävle Bay (Gävlebukten) in the Bothnian Sea.

Hampton Hill

Distinguished from Hampton on all street signs, it is that part across the Charles I-commissioned Longford River, an artificial watercourse built to supply Hampton Court, which forms the boundary between Hampton Hill and Hampton.

Holybrook

The parish takes its name from the Holy Brook, a watercourse which forms its southern boundary.

John McDouall Stuart

Nevertheless, they found a major watercourse in early April which Stuart named the Finke River, and followed it north-west over the South Australian border to the MacDonnell Ranges, which he named after Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia, on 12 April 1860.

Kunstgraben

In order to overcome natural obstacles Kunstgräben were frequently led along the bottom of tunnels in so-called Röschen or,more rarely, over aqueducts; the best-known Kunstgraben aqueducts being the Altväter Bridge near Halsbrücke and the Sperberhai Dyke in the Harz Mountains.

Minn of the Mississippi

It then goes on a journey down the river to Louisiana and the river's delta as the massive watercourse empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Republic of Indian Stream

Described as "Indian Stream Territory, so-called" by the United States census-taker in 1830, the area was named for Indian Stream, a small watercourse.

Street Rod 2

There are two road tracks: Mulholland Drive, largely based on the Road race of Street Rod, and a completely new track, the Aqueduct, which resembles the aqueduct in the movie Grease.

Thomas Hobson

In addition to his contribution to English vernacular, Hobson is also remembered for his involvement in the construction of Hobson's Conduit, a man-made watercourse built in 1614 to provide clean drinking water to the city of Cambridge.

Wokefield

The Burghfield Brook lies at the northern border of Wokefield Common, a notable feature of this watercourse is Pullens Pond, formed where this brook is damned by a forest access road within the common.


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