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Gotta love Australia. No rivers make the cut. Our longest & largest drainage basin river, the Murray, doesn't remotely come close to making this list. It'd ne
by Quarrel 4y ago
Gotta love Australia. No rivers make the cut.
Our longest & largest drainage basin river, the Murray, doesn't remotely come close to making this list.
It'd need to have about 3x its flow rate to come 150th.
- screye 4y agoIt is to be expected. No intersecting tectonic plates with landmass = no mountains = no rivers. The biggest rivers come from mountain ranges that sit on huge inter-continental plates. large Indian and Chinese rivers come from the Himalayas on the Indian plate. The south American rivers from the Andes and the South American plate; and the Congo from the tall-great-lakes that sit on the African plate.
- scythe 4y agoGeologically, New Guinea is part of Australia (the continent), being part of a contiguous section of continental crust. New Zealand, however, is not, forming instead its own "microcontinent" (sometimes Zealandia). A couple of rivers in NG do in fact make the list. But Australians don't generally realize they sit on the same ground as Papuans.
- Quarrel 4y ago> But Australians don't generally realize they sit on the same ground as Papuans. What? Of course we do. We're the colonial power even, you think we haven't noticed them?