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The Eridanos river system, projected on the map of the present European continent (text in Dutch) Eridanos (/ ə ˈ r ɪ d ə ˌ n ɒ s /) was an ancient river which once flowed through the current Baltic Sea. [1] Its river system is also known as the "Baltic River System". [2] [3]
This is a list of rivers that drain into the Baltic Sea (clockwise from Öresund): Sweden. Svartån (at Svarte near Ystad) ... Venta River (at Ventspils) Lithuania
The Nioman/Nemunas/Neman is a slow river; it flows at about 1 to 2 m/s (3.3 to 6.6 ft/s). During floods, water discharge can increase up to 11-fold, to more than 6,800 m 3 /s (240,000 cu ft/s). Severe floods occur on the lower reaches of the river about every 12 – 15 years, which sometimes wash out bridges. [3]
The Volga–Baltic Waterway (boxed area) and the entire Volga River in relation to the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. In Soviet times, the Mariinsk canal system was constantly improved. Two locks were built on the Svir River (in 1936 and 1952); 3 locks were built on the Sheksna River. Major improvement of the Volga–Baltic Waterway took place in ...
Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Ukraine and into the Black Sea) and the Western Dvina (flowing ...
The rivers of Germany flow into either the Baltic Sea (Ostsee), the Black Sea or the North Sea (Nordsee). The main rivers of Germany include: flowing into the Baltic Sea: Oder; flowing into the Black Sea: Danube (and its main tributaries Inn, Isar, and Lech)
The Narva river runs from a lake between Russia and Estonia and ends up in the Gulf of Finland, part of the Baltic Sea. The Russian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for ...
Almost 70% (some 49,600 km 2) of the territory of Lithuania are drained by the Neman River and its tributaries. The other five river basins are small and located nears the borders: Mūša-Nemunėlis (Lielupe; 8,976 km²), Venta (5,140 km²), Daugava (1,857 km²), small rivers flowing into the Baltic Sea (2,523 km²) and Pregolya (54 km² ...