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Danube River
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
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The Danube River is the second longest river in Europe where it is one of the major methods of transportation. One reason for this is the fact that it is the only major European river to flow west to east. The source of the river is located in the Black Forest area of Germany. From there, it flows about 1,770 miles to the east. The mouth of the river forms a delta on the Romanian coastline of the Black Sea.

Webster Field Annex (NAS Patuxent River)
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
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The 1,000-acre Webster Field Annex is located about 13 miles southwest of NAS Patuxent in St. Inigoes, Maryland. Webster Field Annex is used as an auxiliary field for daylight testing. The Interrogation Friend of Foe (IFF) Program Manager (PMA 213) is located at the NAVAIR Webster Field Annex.

Mississippi River Delta
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
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Nile River Delta
dwfarmer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dwfarmer.

Poop Creek
scalpod (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: scalpod.
Yes, it's real.

Krishna River Delta
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.

Great Man Made River Project in Libya
edv (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: edv.
This is the last collecting pond where the pipe (in light blue on the map) splits just to the west into the northern (to Benghazi) and western (to Tripoli) segments of this massive engineering project.
Ancient water is drawn from acquifers in the south (you can follow the pipe) and gravity fed down to this holding pond.
There was enough concrete used in this project to make a road 12 feet wide to the moon.

Hippos
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Best seen in Google Earth.
More of these high res patches with more hippos up and down this river.
There are about 1000 hippos protected along this river.

Confluence of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
santo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: santo.
Cairo, IL (pronounced KAY-roe): southernmost city in the state and point where the Ohio flows into the Mississippi.

Kentucky Bend
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
Surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi, across which in any direction lies Missouri, and on the fourth side by Tennessee, this drop of land in a crook of the river is actually part of Kentucky, a quirk of surveying mistakes, political boundary definitions, and an 1812 earthquake that redirected the river. 2002 est. pop.: 15

Atchafalaya Basin
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Blue Nile and White Nile join
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
Blue Nile (from east) joins White Nile (from south) to form the Nile River

Columbia River Mouth
dwfarmer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dwfarmer.

Siren scene - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
**Spoiler** If you have not seen this film... where you been?
In the film Everett, Delmar and Pete hear singing near a river. As they approach they see three woman washing clothes on rocks near the river. The women drug the men with corn whiskey and their singing lulls the men into unconsciousness. When Everett and Delmar wake up they see a toad in Pete's clothes. Delmar is convinced the sirens turned Pete into the toad. "They loved him up and turned him into a... horny toad."
The scene was shot at the D'Lo Water Park.

200 acre model of the Mississippi River
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Mississippi Hydraulic Model
A 200 acre functional model of the entire Mississippi River drainage area, located on a field surrounded by forests, and now abandoned. Constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers to model the flow characteristics of the river, as part of the design process for their numerous flood control structures. Built in the late 1940's, initially using forced labor from a German POW camp established next to the site, and used last in the early 1980's, the model is in a public park, and is still owned by the Army Corps.

Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth (Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe) is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times.

Ganges Delta
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Ganges Delta (also known as the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta, the Sunderbans Delta, or the Bengalla Delta) is a river delta in the South Asia region of Bengal, consisting of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. It is the world's largest delta, and empties into the Bay of Bengal. It is also one of the most fertile regions in the world, thus earning the nickname The Green Delta. The delta stretches from the Hooghly River on the west to the Meghna River on the east. It is approximately 350 km (220 mi) across at the Bay of Bengal. Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Haldia in India and Mongla and Chittagong in Bangladesh are the principal seaports on the delta.
A number of large rivers flow through the Ganges Delta, including the Padma (main distributary of the Ganges) and the Jamuna (main distributary of the Brahmaputra), which merge and then join the Meghna before entering the sea.

Hazard's Beach
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
A popular Palisades Interstate Park swimming area in the early 20th Century.
Hazard's took its name from the Hazard Powder Company, which had maintained a dock here for dynamite delivery to nearby quarries.
The actual original main area was the land directly beneath and immediately to the north and south of the George Washington Bridge. Prior to the bridge construction there was a direct access pedestrian ferry running in the summertime from 158th Street in Manhattan. The park's first bathhouse was built here in 1916. The bathhouse provided changing rooms and lockers, as well as an open-air upstairs picnic area with refreshment stand.
During construction of the bridge a temporary bathhouse had been constructed just to the north. After the bridge's opening (in October 1931,) cars and buses could now drive across the Hudson River to bring people to the park causing the pedestrian ferry service to go out of business. But park attendance remained high in the early 30's. This wasn't because of the bridge but because the economy was bad and people enjoyed escaping the city and their misery to spend a day getting away from it all at the beach and the park. When the economy got better, people worked more and went to the park less. Then during WWII, after the summer of '43, in fact, because of war-related pollution in the river, swimming came to end -- the last Palisades Interstate Park beach closed.
Through the More Info link to Flickr you can view 3 old photographs of the beach including one of the large stone bathhouse that once stood on the site.
(The official name for this location is Hazard Beach. I guess that's not really that important but it should be noted. "Hazard's," I reckon, was the popular name outside of the office of the United States Board on Geographic Names where, other than for five locations, they do not allow possessive apostrophes in place names.)

Source of the River Mersey
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
The River Tame (right) and the River Goyt (ahead over the small fall) meeting to form the River Mersey in Stockport, later running out in the Irish Sea passing Liverpool.

Official Source of the Hudson River
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
Lake Tear of the Clouds is the highest (4,293 feet) source of the Hudson River. However, the lake discharges into Feldspar Brook, then to the Opalescent River, then to Henderson Lake, and then the Hudson River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River

Pollution on Ticino River
Effi (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Effi.

Colorado River and Gila River Merge
dwfarmer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dwfarmer.

Source of the Mississippi River, Lake Itasca
jphilb (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jphilb.
The headwaters of the Mississippi River come from Lake Itasca in Minnesota.

'Beer garden' in Warsaw on the river Wisła
artek (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: artek.
small pub "garden beer" working only on summer time.

Rivergreen Golf
Effi (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Effi.
6.000 meters wonderful nature with mediterranean trees, 2.000 real shrubs, 1.000 cubic meters rocksand, 1.000 square meters water, where you can play and enjoy relaxing moments.

Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere reserve
albinoflea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: albinoflea.
Recently inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List as part of the Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California site.
From the Advisory Body Evaluation:
The waters of the Upper Gulf and Colorado River Delta are shallow (50-200m) and becoming more saline (to 35.5ppm) as a result of the upstream diversions of the
Colorado River, which started in 1909. But they have a variety of intertidal wetlands and sandy and rocky coasts of coquina (cemented molluscs). The sea floor is mud
and silts near the delta, sandy and rocky further south. In this area there are 18 species of marine mammal. One of most important for conservation is the so-called
"vaquita", or Gulf porpoise, which is one of the world’s four rarest marine mammals. There are also sea lion, 5 species of dolphin, 11 species of whales and 161
species of fish, 42 of them endemic. Marine invertebrate include 35 species of mollusc and 190 decapods.

Hovermarine HM5 moored on River Itchen
markporter (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: markporter.

Yellowstone Canyon
tmweber (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tmweber.
The canyon in made by the Yellowstone River

Ebro delta
oscare (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: oscare.
Delta of Ebro River. Mediterranean sea

Albion Riverside
kaiken (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaiken.

White River State Park
The Park is home to the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, Indiana State Museum, IMAX® Theater, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, NCAA Hall of Champions, Victory Field and Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial.

Canal crosses river on a bridge
As Deutsche Welle described the bridge upon its completion in 2003:
Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river. At the center of the project is Europe's longest water bridge measuring in just shy of a kilometer at 918 meters. The huge tub to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.
The water bridge will enable river barges to avoid a lengthy and sometimes unreliable passage along the Elbe. Shipping can often come to a halt on the stretch if the river's water mark falls to unacceptably low levels.

Mother Brook
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Delaware River & Bay Authority Ferry in drydock

Three Rivers
Naten53 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Naten53.
Point State Park

Mackenzie River Delta

Deutsches Eck
Toaster (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Toaster.
Mouth of the river Mosel to the river Rhine in Koblenz

Rheinfall (eng. Rhine Falls)
up3m (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: up3m.
Biggest waterfall in Europe near Schaffhausen/Switzerland.

Great Falls of the Potomac
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Esker in Canadian arctic
AlejoHausner (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlejoHausner.
An esker is the sand and rock debris left by a stream or river that ran inside of a glacier, after the glacier melts away.

Furnace Creek
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

Columbia River Gorge
letnry (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: letnry.
The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular river canyon, 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep, cutting the only sea level route through the Cascade Mountain Range. It is more than a natural wonder; the Gorge is a critical transportation corridor and is home to 75,000 people, resource dependent communities, farms and schools.
For many years there was concern about who should manage the Columbia River Gorge and in what way. A turning point was marked on Nov. 17, 1986. President Ronald Reagan signed into law an Act creating the 292,500 acre Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. This date does not mark the end of concern over management of the Gorge. Instead, it signals a beginning of new opportunities.
The National Scenic Area Act does not create a wilderness or park. Instead, it allows for existing rural and scenic characteristics to be retained, while it encourages compatible growth and development within urban areas.

Low water crossing
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Low water crossing on the Frio Rio, just downstream from Garner State park.

The Donauquelle - The former source of the Danube River
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
For long it was believed the source was the Donauquelle in the city of Donaueschingen until it was changed to the river sources of the Breg and Brigach.
The Danube River is the 2nd. longest river in Europe with 2,860 km (1,777 mi) flowing into the Black Sea passing among others the cities Ulm, Regensburg, Passau, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade and being the border between Bulgaria and Romania.

Lock at entrance to the Port of Sevilla
The Guadalquivir River through Sevilla has always caused problems of silting and flooding resulting in loss of traffic to Cadiz. A solution was needed.
A brief description of the project would be the following: "A channel would be opened which, starting opposite the Cartuja, upriver from Seville, would join up with the San Juan branch-off at the town of the same name. This channel, the axis of the whole lot and, actually, another cutoff, would divert the river as it flowed through Seville shifting it towards the Vega de Triana where the new river channel opened up.
To separate the Port from the river and free it of its influence, three enclosure embankments would be established: one in Chapina, another at the southern end of the Alfonso XIII canal and a third on a part of the former river bed at Punta de Tablada.
In this way the whole port area would become a closed harbour and to enter it a lock was constructed sideways to the canal enclosure.
The new canal can be seen slightly to NW and the old riverbed and port still exist to the north of the locks.

Pod of Wild Hippos
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
Mojave (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mojave.
Old bridges still in use. New bridge under construction.

Modern aqueduct over the River Severn
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.

Source of the River Avon
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
The River Avon or Avon /ˈeɪvən/ is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England. Also known as the Warwickshire Avon or Shakespeare's Avon, it has been divided since 1719 into the Lower Avon, below Evesham, and the Upper Avon, from Evesham to above Stratford-upon-Avon.

Colorado River Delta

Old Man River valley, Lethbridge, Alberta
charlene (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: charlene.
The Old Man River (no, not after the song) winds its way through Lethbridge, Alberta.

Santeetlah Dam
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southeastern Vietnam of 39,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi). The size of the area covered by water depends on the season.
The Mekong Delta has recently been dubbed as a 'biological treasure trove'. Over 10,000 new species have been discovered in previously unexplored areas of Mekong Delta, including a species of rat thought to be extinct.

Source of the River Wey
The River Wey in Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex is a tributary of the River Thames with two separate branches which join at Tilford. The source of the north branch is at Alton, Hampshire and of the south branch at both Blackdown south of Haslemere, and also close to Gibbet Hill, near Hindhead (the south branch splits into two smaller rivers). The Wey has a total catchment area of 904 square kilometres (350 sq mi), draining parts of Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex.
It is partly navigable from Godalming, forming the natural part of the Wey and Godalming Navigations. It joins the River Thames near Weybridge, which is named after the river, just downstream of Shepperton Lock. The river is also a popular subject to study, as its features allow for easy access to data.

Calderwood Dam
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Bunë / Bojana River
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
In Albania it's the Bunë & in Serbia and Montenegro it's the Bojana. Whichever you wanna call it, this river makes up the most southern portion of the Serbia and Montenegro & Albania border as it flows into the Adriatic Sea.

Disney World's Liberty Belle paddlewheel riverboat

Horseshoe Bend Canyon
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
After a 3/4 mile hike from the nearby highway, visitors get a breathtaking view of the 1000 ft. drop to the Colorado River below.

Danube Delta
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării, Ukrainian: Дельта Дунаю, romanized: Deľta Dunaju) is the 2nd largest river delta in Europe, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea County), with a small part in Ukraine (Odesa Oblast). Its approx surface area is 4,152 km2, of which 3,446 km2 is in Romania. With the lagoons of Razim–Sinoe (1,015 km2 with 865 km2 water surface), located south of the main delta, the total area of the Delta is 5,165 km2. The Razim–Sinoe lagoon complex is geologically and ecologically related to the delta proper; the combined territory is listed as a World Heritage Site since 1991.

Colorado River
nic (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nic.

1 Osum + 1 Devoll = 1 Seman
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
The Osum river from the south joins the Devoll from the east/north and together they form the Seman which empties into the Adriatic Sea.

Trans-Caspian Railway crossing the Amu Darya River
mstoess (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mstoess.

Behsood Bridge over the Kabul River

Amazon River
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
The Amazon River (US /ˈæməzɒn/ or UK /ˈæməzən/; Portuguese: Amazonas; Spanish: Amazonas) in South America is the second longest in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined (not including Madeira and Rio Negro, which are tributaries of the Amazon). The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi), accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow.

Tuckerman's Ravine and Mt. Washington
UMassIntrepid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: UMassIntrepid.

Kepi i Semanit
Where the Seman river empties into the Adriatic Sea.

Woonasquatucket River and Olneyville Square
Liti (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Liti.

Little Falls
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From gorp.away.com:
Below the twin dams the river narrows rapidly and drops over one long rock garden and several wave trains before reaching Little Falls proper. This rapid is a straightforward ledge at the lowest levels but even the slightest change in water height can alter Little Falls into a thundering, boiling monster. At high levels the normally short Class III drop stretches into a Class VI killer with 15-foot exploding waves stretching for half a mile. No detailed explanation of Little Falls is attempted here since it is essential to only attempt this stretch in the company of paddlers who have experience with this rapids and to scout it from the left bank of the river. It is interesting to note that the highest water velocity ever recorded in nature was seen at Little Falls during the massive flood of 1936.

Onyx river
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Although it is only about 20 miles long, it is the longest river in Antartica, and flows in Wright valley

Albert Bridge, River Thames
stuartwr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: stuartwr.
Looks great all lit up at night. But this is during the day. Obviously.

'Om Mani Padme Hum' on the Tongtian River
kaiken (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaiken.
'Om Mani Padme Hum' (Tibetan) is Avalokiteshvara's mantra.

Chickamauga Dam

Vjosë (or Aóos) River Delta
The Vjosë, starting in Greece as the Aóos, empties into the Adriatic Sea here at this cape which I cannot find a name for while even the tiniest little capes in Albania seem to have names, this one doesn't!

Riverfest Riverfront Amphitheater

Power lines in the Delaware River

Yukon River Delta

The Providence River
Liti (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Liti.
The two smaller rivers on the upper left corner are the Woonasquatucket (from the west) and the Moshassuck (from the north), which join together to form the Providence River. The East Side of the city is the area to the east of the Providence and Moshassuck rivers.

Ray Nitschke Bridge
Named in honor of Green Bay Packer great Ray Nitschke who played his college ball at the University of Illinois.

Puna Tsang Chu
Name of the river below the confluence of the Mo Chu and the Pho Chu.

Mathers Swing Bridge
LanternBearer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LanternBearer.
This bridge is among the last of the center pivot bridges in Florida's Brevard County. It crosses from Merrit Island to Indian Harbor Beach just above the confluence of the Banana River and the Indian River Intercostal Waterway.

Winooski River
Bend in the Winooski River near Winooski, Essex Junction, and Burlington, Vermont.

Seriously meandering river
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
I believe this to be Kokshaga River (pictures here).
A meander is a bend in a river, also known as an oxbow loop. A stream or river flowing through a wide valley or flat plain will tend to form a meandering stream course as it alternatively erodes and deposits sediments along its course. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its floodplain. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream body, an oxbow lake is formed.

Riverside water tower
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Designed in 1870. 108 feet tall.

Manaus
Skywalker (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Skywalker.

Okavango River Delta
yubyub41 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: yubyub41.

Delta King paddlewheel riverboat
The Delta King is the sister ship of the Delta Queen which operates on the Mississippi River. Now a hotel.

Triple Frontier
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Triple Frontier (Spanish: La Triple Frontera, Portuguese: Tríplice Fronteira) is a tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge. Near the convergence are the cities of Ciudad del Este, Alto Paraná; Puerto Iguazú, Misiones and Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná. This area is near Iguazú Falls and the Itaipú hydroelectric plant.

Amazon & Negro rivers (not) joining
Note how the two rivers stay seperate for many miles downstream.

Hains Point
albinoflea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: albinoflea.
Home to the sculpture "The Awakening" by J. Seward Johnson Jr., and a great place to watch the planes coming into Reagan National Airport.

Source of the Carmel River
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Everglades

Thimphu Chu

Tanji River

Loch Ness monster holydays in Iraq
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
ED: Anyone have any idea what this might really be?

Sarakata River
On the island of Espiritu Santo.

True Source of the Hudson River
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
Henderson Lake, at 1814 feet above sea level, is the northernmost body of water which discharges directly into the Hudson River. The official source of the Hudson is Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains, which empties into Feldspar Brook , then the Opalescent River, then into the Henderson Lake, and lastly the Hudson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River

Source of the River Severn
The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren, Latin: Sabrina) is the longest river in Great Britain, at about 354 kilometres (220 mi), but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of 610 metres (2,001 ft) on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales.
It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester on its banks. With an average discharge of 107 m³/s at Apperley, Gloucestershire, the Severn is the greatest river in terms of water flow in England and Wales.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksphotos101/3892024499/

New River Terminus
The New River has been called the most polluted river in the country by a number of environmental organizations. It flows out of Mexicali, Mexico, laden with that city's sewage, then is charged with agricultural chemicals and wastes, as it becomes the primary drainage channel for the intensively industrialized agriculture of the Imperial Valley. The channelized terminus of the river is at the south end of the Salton Sea.

El Charco Azul
Mountain swimming hole with cool, milky, blue-green water.

Mouth of the Merrimack River
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.