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0 m (0 ft) Length: 4,241 km (2,635 mi) [1] ... The Mackenzie River (French ... Barge traffic travels the entire length of the Mackenzie in long "trains" of up to ...
65 m (213 ft) Length: 275 km (171 mi) Basin size: 12,992 km 2 (5,016 sq mi) Basin features; ... The Mackenzie River is a river in Central Queensland, Australia.
Among the longest rivers of Canada are 47 streams of at least 600 km (370 mi). In the case of some rivers such as the Columbia, the length listed in the table below is solely that of the main stem. In the case of others such as the Mackenzie, it is the combined lengths of the main stem and one or more upstream tributaries, as noted.
For example, due to 18 cutoffs created between 1766 and 1885, the length of the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, was reduced by 351 kilometres (218 miles). [10] These points make it difficult, if not impossible, to get an accurate measurement of the length of a river.
The locality's name presumably derives from the Mackenzie River, which in turn was named by explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on 10 January 1845, after his friend pastoralist Evan Mackenzie of Kilcoy Station. [7] Mackenzie River State School opened on 21 May 1973, but closed in 2018 after having no students enrol in 2017.
The Fond du Lac River is one of the upper branches of the Mackenzie River system, draining into the Arctic Ocean, located in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.The river is 277 kilometres (172 mi) long, has a watershed of 66,800 km 2 (25,800 sq mi), and its mean discharge is 300 m 3 /s (11,000 cu ft/s).
131 m (430 ft) Length: 57 km (35 mi) Basin features; River system: ... the Mackenzie River flows generally north by west and drains into the Wimmera River, ...
It is 469 km (291 mi) long and 20 to 203 km (12 to 126 mi) wide. [3] It covers an area of 27,200 km 2 (10,500 sq mi) [ 2 ] in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km 3 (260 cu mi) [ 10 ] to 1,580 km 3 (380 cu mi) [ 2 ] and up to 2,088 km 3 (501 cu mi) [ 11 ] making it the 10th or 12th largest by volume.