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Belfast River may refer to: Belfast River (Dominica), a river in Dominica; Belfast River (Georgia), a river in the United States This page was last edited on 6 ...
The Belfast River is a 6.1-mile-long (9.8 km) [1] tidal channel in Bryan County, Georgia, in the United States.It is a northern side channel of the Laurel View River.At its seaward end where it rejoins the Laurel View, the two rivers form the Medway River, which continues to the Atlantic Ocean through St. Catherines Sound.
A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
The River Lagan (from Irish Abhainn an Lagáin 'river of the low-lying district'; Ulster Scots: Lagan Wattèr) [1] is a major river in Northern Ireland which runs 53.5 mi (86.1 km) [2] from the Slieve Croob mountain in County Down to Belfast where it enters Belfast Lough, an inlet of the Irish Sea.
Belfast, situated at the western end of Belfast Lough and the mouth of the River Lagan, was an ideal location for the shipbuilding industry, which would eventually manifest in the Harland and Wolff company. Harland and Wolff were one of the largest shipbuilders in the world employing up to 35,000 workers. [56]
The Passagassawakeag River (/ p æ s ə ɡ æ s ə ˈ w ɑː k ɛ ɡ, p ə ˌ s ɑː-/) is a 16-mile-long (26 km) [1] river in Waldo County, Maine in the United States.From the outlet of Lake Passagassawakeag) in Brooks, it runs south and east to its estuary in Belfast
Belfast was founded at a sandy ford across the Farset, and this is the origin of the city's name – Béal Feirste, the "river mouth of the sandbar". Farset itself is derived from the Irish word for "sandbar". The river flowed beside docks on High Street as Belfast grew in the 19th century. [3] [1]
The Belfast River is a river on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Parts of the river flow at near-boiling temperatures due to geothermal activity near the river's ...