At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.

At the start of the 21st century, Sydney faces a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry.

At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated.

At this time Wisbech was on the estuary of the River Great Ouse, but silting caused the coastline to move north, and the River Nene was diverted to serve the town.

At 13: 10, Beatty turned northwest and ordered all the British ships to withdraw since the tide had now risen sufficiently for larger German ships to pass out through the Jade estuary.

At the Plum Island estuary, Massachusetts ( U. S. A ), stratigraphic cores revealed that during the 18th and 19th century the marsh prograded over subtidal and mudflat environments to increase in area from 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup > to 9 km < sup > 2 </ sup > after European settlers deforested the land uptream and increased the rate of sediment supply.

At Onna ( Nursling ), the Romans erected a bridge ( probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains ) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross.

At high tide, the estuary forms a large body of water that is heavily used for water sports especially sailing, windsurfing and water skiing.

At this time, the Lea was a wide, fast flowing river, and the tidal estuary stretched as far as Hackney Wick .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 88-90 accessed: 15 November 2006 </ cite ></ ref > Evidence of a late Roman settlement at Old Ford, dating from the 4th and 5th centuries, has been found.

At its estuary the river has formed the wide shallow ria of Poole Harbour.

At the Volga estuary, the French were supposed to be joined by Russian forces.

At the confluence of the Elwy and the Clwyd, the river becomes tidal and enters a narrow estuary with lots of wildlife before meeting the Irish Sea at Rhyl.

At Wimborne Minster it is joined by the River Allen, and at its estuary at Christchurch it is joined by the River Avon before it flows through the harbour into the English Channel.

At the time of European colonialization of the Hudson River estuary in the 17th century, much of the west side Upper New York Bay contained large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster beds, a major source of food for the Lenape people who lived there at the time.

At the time of his arrival the estuary of the Taw and Torridge rivers was wooded, as was a portion of Braunton Burrows.

At Wilmington, it receives the Northeast Cape Fear River and Brunswick River, turns south, widening as an estuary and entering the Atlantic approximately 3 miles ( 5 km ) west of Cape Fear.

At Little Ferry, it is joined by the broad Overpeck Creek, then flows southward, widening in a broad meandering tidal estuary through the Meadowlands, forming extensive side streams and wetlands.

At its highest point it stands at only 352 metres ( 1155 feet ), but offers uninterrupted views of the Cumbrian coast from the Ravenglass estuary in the south to the Solway Firth and across to Scotland in the north.

At the estuary of the river dwelt the Beormas, who unlike the nomadic Sami peoples were sedentary, and their land was rich and populous.

At the mouth of the estuary is the Wightlink car ferry terminal for connections to Portsmouth.

At Ayton the Eye Water swings NNE for the final five km leg to its estuary.

At dusk, bats, owls and otters may be seen, while the mudflats of the estuary are favoured by black-headed gulls, redshanks and oystercatchers.

At its mouth the estuary is 500 metres wide but the 20 metre deep ( chart ) channel is only 50 metres wide.

At this point, recognizing the opportunity, Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, issued a directive that made the opening of the Scheldt estuary the top priority of 21st Army Group.

At that time intercommunal groupings of this nature were not permitted to straddle departmental frontiers, and accordingly 23 more Isère communes ( along with 6 communes from Ain ) found themselves transferred to Rhône.

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

At the end of this year and early in 895 ( or 896 ), the Danes drew their ships up the River Thames and River Lea and fortified themselves twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of London.

At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

At the Battle of Vercellae, at the confluence of the Sesia River with the Po River, in 101 BC, the long voyage of the Cimbri also came to an end.

At this time the Piast duke Konrad I of Masovia with the consent of Pope Innocent III had started the first of several unsuccessful Prussian Crusades into the adjacent Chełmno Land and Christian acted as a missionary among the Prussians east of the Vistula River.

At the age of 13 he read Thomas's Elpis Israel and was subsequently baptised in 1853 at the age of 14 in the River Dee and joined the " Baptised Believers ".

At that moment the aircraft was flying through a heavy rainstorm over the Lewis River in southwestern Washington.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

At Teperu a pontoon ferry was installed across the Mazaruni River to Itaballi.

At the end of the decade a Tweed Mill was established, which was steam powered using water from the Duck River.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

Leine River At Hanover City

At Economy the Harmonists intended to become more involved in manufacturing and their new town on the Ohio River provided better access to eastern markets and water access to the south and west than they had in Indiana.

At that point, conservation officers allowed the public back into areas of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge that had been restricted upon the initial reported sightings.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

At Vicksburg, the failure to coordinate multiple forces on both sides of the Mississippi River rested primarily on the his inability to create a harmonious departmental arrangement or to force such commanders as generals Edmund Kirby Smith, Earl Van Dorn, and Theophilus H. Holmes to work together.

At the age of 25, in the summer of 1835, Carson attended an annual mountain man rendezvous, which was held along the Green River in southwestern Wyoming.

At one time, the land actually grew when spring floods from the Mississippi River added sediment and stimulated marsh growth ; the land is now shrinking.

At 9, 500 BP, Lake Onega, previously draining into the White Sea, started emptying into Ladoga via the River Svir.

At the Ssombo River I was shown a path said to have been made by this animal in order to get at its food.

At 7: 15 p. m. on 1 May each year, the Kettle Bridge Clogs morris dancing side dance across Barming Bridge ( otherwise known as the Kettle Bridge ), which spans the River Medway near Maidstone, to mark the official start of their morris dancing season.