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The Mackenzie River has a similar range of fish fauna to the Mississippi River system. It is believed that the two river systems were connected during the Ice Ages by meltwater lakes and channels, allowing fish in the two rivers to interbreed. [48] Fish in the Mackenzie River proper include the northern pike, several minnow species, and lake ...
The river is joined by twenty-four tributaries including the Isaac and Connors rivers and Funnel Creek. [6] Northeast of Duaringa, the Mackenzie is joined by the Dawson River and together they form the Fitzroy River. From source to mouth, the Mackenzie River descends 79 metres (259 ft) over its 275-kilometre (171 mi) course. [2] [3] [4] [7]
The Mackenzie River forms the eastern, northern and north-western boundary of the locality. The land in the north of the locality is lower-lying with elevations of 100 metres (330 ft) rising to higher levels of elevations of 200 metres (660 ft) in the south.
Mackenzie River State School opened on 21 May 1973, but closed in 2018 after having no students enrol in 2017. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It was at 31145 Fitzroy Developmental Road ( 22°57′01″S 148°55′43″E / 22.9503°S 148.9287°E / -22.9503; 148.9287 ( Mackenzie River State
The Little Chicago Prospect is an oil and natural gas deposit on the Mackenzie River in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.For census purposes Statistics Canada shows it being located in the unorganized part of Region 2, Northwest Territories, and as of the 2021 census, its population was 0, unchanged from 2016.
Its source is in the Mackenzie Mountains close to the watershed border with Yukon. It flows eastward, joining the Mackenzie River just south of the Arctic Circle. The river flows about 370 km (230 mi), dropping over 1,200 m (3,900 ft) over its course, with large volume rapids, fast current, and six canyons. The upper half of the river is ...
The Mackenzie River (the river) forms the northern and north-western boundary of the locality. Parker Creek forms part of the south-western boundary of the locality and then flows in a northerly direction through the locality to becomes a tributary of the Mackenzie River on the northern boundary ( 23°03′S 149°12′E / 23.05°S 149.2 ...
The Mackenzie River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, is located in the Grampians region of the Australian state of Victoria.Rising in the Grampians National Park, on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the Mackenzie River flows generally north by west and drains into the Wimmera River, southwest of Horsham.