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Fly River

River in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia

Body of waterriverQ739751

Length: 1,050 km
Discharge: 6,000 cubic metre per second
Mouth: Gulf of Papua
Country: Papua New Guinea
, Indonesia
Watershed area: 76,000 km²

Overview

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The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik and Mamberamo, with a total length of 1,060 km (660 mi). It is the largest by volume of discharge in Oceania, the largest in the world without a single dam in its catchment, and overall the 23rd-largest primary river in the world by discharge volume. It is located in the southwest of Papua New Guinea and in the South Papua province of Indonesia. It rises in the Victor Emanuel Range arm of the Star Mountains, and crosses the south-western lowlands before flowing into the Gulf of Papua in a large delta. The Fly–Strickland River system has a total length of 1,224 km (761 mi), making it the longest river system of an island in the world. The 824 km (512 mi) Strickland is the longest and largest tributary of Fly River, making it the furthest distance source of the Fly River.

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Tributary: Ok Tedi River
Strickland River
Basin country: Papua New Guinea
Located in: Western Province
Different from: Fly
Named after: HMS Fly

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13 identifiers linking Fly River across the web's reference databases

-5.3028, 141.5192OpenStreetMap ↗

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