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- More On Mega-lake Discovered In Western Desert
Discovery News (Larry O'Hanlon) The hyper-arid deserts of western Egypt were once home to a lush mega-lake fed by the Nile River's earliest annual floods. Fossil fish and space shuttle radar images have defined the bed and drainage channels of...
- Travel: Cruising The Nile By Felucca
The Star Online (Revathi Murugappan) Instead of taking a five-star cruise on the Nile, try the felucca. For a long time in the past, travelling in Egypt meant sailing the Nile since the world’s longest river was the main transport corridor. The river...
- Travel Book Review: Down The Nile: Alone In A Fisherman’s Skiff
World Hum (Julia Ross) At the outset of her new book, Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, Rosemary Mahoney assures us she has no desire to die. She simply wants to row 120 miles down the world’s longest river, an unaccompanied Western woman...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- Expedition To Trace Nile To Its Source
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3419253a12,00.html"A New Zealander leading a team of Britons through Africa says they want to make the first complete ascent of the Nile River. 'Our goal is to accurately measure the length of the Nile to its longest...
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More on Amazon longer than Nile
Scientific American
A second expedition set for September—the beginning of the dry season—will confirm whether water flows year-round, but such measurements are inherently subjective. "We take the longest, straightest tributary," explains Jennifer Runyon, a researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Board on Geographic Names. "We look at the [drainage] map, identify the longest one and we go with it. It may not have as much water in it. Or even be what the local people think of it."In the case of the Mississippi, for example, the USGS considers the headwaters to be Lake Itasca in Minnesota—the straightest flow. Yet, if its longest tributary is taken into account—the Jefferson and Missouri rivers—the Mississippi becomes three times as long (though still not as long as either the Amazon or Nile).
Such subjective definitions make it impossible to definitively judge whether the Amazon or Nile is the world's longest river. But new technology, such as satellite mapping, does allow scientists to study such river systems in their entirety.
- More On Mega-lake Discovered In Western Desert
Discovery News (Larry O'Hanlon) The hyper-arid deserts of western Egypt were once home to a lush mega-lake fed by the Nile River's earliest annual floods. Fossil fish and space shuttle radar images have defined the bed and drainage channels of...
- Travel: Cruising The Nile By Felucca
The Star Online (Revathi Murugappan) Instead of taking a five-star cruise on the Nile, try the felucca. For a long time in the past, travelling in Egypt meant sailing the Nile since the world’s longest river was the main transport corridor. The river...
- Travel Book Review: Down The Nile: Alone In A Fisherman’s Skiff
World Hum (Julia Ross) At the outset of her new book, Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, Rosemary Mahoney assures us she has no desire to die. She simply wants to row 120 miles down the world’s longest river, an unaccompanied Western woman...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- Expedition To Trace Nile To Its Source
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3419253a12,00.html"A New Zealander leading a team of Britons through Africa says they want to make the first complete ascent of the Nile River. 'Our goal is to accurately measure the length of the Nile to its longest...