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The gulf is relatively shallow, with an average depth from 10 to 12 metres (33 to 39 ft), which restricts heavy sea transport. The Taz Estuary is an eastern side-branch formed by the Taz River. There are several islands near the mouth of the Ob, at the beginning of the estuary, such as Khaley Island. All these islands are close to the shore and ...
The Sob is a left tributary of the Ob river.It has its sources in the eastern slopes of the southern sector of the Polar Urals.After leaving the mountainous area, the river flows roughly southeastwards and southwards among small lakes in a floodplain located at the northwestern end of the West Siberian Plain.
One reportedly coded Underground Railroad song is "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd". [1] The song's title is said to refer to the star formation (an asterism) known in America as the Big Dipper and in Europe as The Plough. The pointer stars of the Big Dipper align with the North Star. In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus ...
Sailors heading down the Mississippi River picked up the song and made it a capstan shanty that they sang while hauling in the anchor. [4] This boatmen's song found its way down the Mississippi River to American clipper ships—and thus around the world. [5] The song had become popular as a sea shanty with seafaring sailors by the mid 1800s. [6]
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On John C. Fremont's route map of 1845, the river's name is listed as "Goo-al-pah or Canadian River" from the Comanche and Kiowa name for the river (Kiowa gúlvàu, [ɡúᵈl.pʼɔː] 'red river'). In 1929, Muriel H. Wright wrote that the Canadian River was named about 1820 by French traders who noted another group of traders from Canada ...
An initial plan to route the railway through Tomsk necessitated a bridge 55 km west, but frequent spring flooding of the Ob river at this site rendered it unsuitable. Civil engineer and writer Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky subsequently identified a viable alternative: a narrow, rocky section approximately 200 km southwest of Tomsk, near the ...
The Ob Plateau is located in Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast at the southern edge of the West Siberian Plain. It extends roughly to the north of the foothills of the Altai Mountains along the left bank of the north-flowing Ob River. To the west it descends gradually to the Kulunda Plain. [2] [3]