People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

With the independence and the influences of the European Industrial Revolution the main way of transport in Colombia became the navigation mainly through the Magdalena River which connected Honda in inland Colombia, with Barranquilla by the Caribbean sea to the trade with the United States and Europe.

The origin of the Casiquiare, at the River Orinoco, is below the mission of La Esmeralda at, and about above sea level.

Its mouth at the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon River, is near the town of San Carlos and is above sea level.

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

Ia has also been compared with the Ugaritic Yamm ( sea ), ( also called Judge Nahar, or Judge River ) whose earlier name in at least one ancient source was Yaw, or Ya ' a.

* Firth of Forth, the estuary and sea bay widening out from the River Forth

Located as the southernmost of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Guadeloupe comprises two main islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called Salt River ) forming Guadeloupe proper.

Soon after, the Nile River valley of ancient Egypt was unified under the Pharaohs in the 4th millennium BC, and civilization quickly spread through the Fertile Crescent to the east coast of the sea and throughout the Levant, which happens to make the Mediterranean countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel part of the cradle of civilization.

The Jordan River is short, but from its mountain headwaters ( approximately 160 kilometers north of the river's mouth at the Dead Sea ) the riverbed drops from an elevation of about 3, 000 meters above sea level to more than 400 meters below sea level.

* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

The city serves as the nation's cultural and learning centre, situated above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River.

The fort had two main gateways: one facing the sea, known as Kharra Darwaaza ( Brackish Gate ) ( Kharadar ) and the other facing the Lyari River known as the Meet ' ha Darwaaza ( Sweet Gate ) ( Mithadar ).

Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River Eider by the short Gieselau Canal.

Dikes along the Fraser River are regulated to handle about 8. 5 m at the Mission Gauge ( the height above sea level of the dykes at Mission ).

Lansing elevation ranges between above sea level on the far south side of Lansing along Northrup Street near the Cedar Street intersection, to to above sea level along the Grand River because of the two dams along the river.

Ulaanbaatar lies at above sea level in the valley of the Tuul River.

The Murray Mouth is the point at which the Murray River empties into the sea.

In 2009, British Adventurer David Cornthwaite walked and kayaked 2476km along the Murray River from source to sea.

In the Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern delta of the Neva River was covered by a sea.

In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.

Some of the Columbia and Snake River dams employ fish ladders, which are effective to varying degrees at allowing these fish to travel upstream.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

Following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1817, which opened up easier travel to Lake Erie from the East Coast of the United States, the Detroit River became a heavily traversed route for settlers traveling to northern Michigan, and Detroit, as well, experienced a sudden increase in population.

The only way a ship could travel out of the Great Lakes system was to travel down the Detroit River.

It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.

The railway crossed over the islands of Don Det and Don Khon, enabling vessels, freight and passengers to travel along the Mekong River.

The Barmah Choke and The Narrows mean the amount of water that can travel down this part of the Murray River is restricted.

The Murray River has been a significant barrier to land-based travel and trade.

Goods travel primarily across the Thai border ( where most illegal drugs are exported ) and along the Ayeyarwady River.

After reaching the mouth of the Ohio, settlers would travel north on the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri.

These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland, and as far south as Al-Andalus.

* May 15 – Jamestown: Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer, and others travel 6 days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan's village.

* September 10 – John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, 2 African American slaves and 2 Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River ( this event has also been dated September 12, 1711 ).

From then until July 12 he and his crew are hosted by Chinese military courier officers to travel along the Grand Canal of China, all the way to Beijing, and then finally back across the Yalu River into Korea.

* October 22 – Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day.

In 1765, the Russian tsarina Catherine II gave the pastor an assignment to travel in Russia on a research journey and investigate the situation of a German colony on the Volga River.

Lake Champlain, which forms part of the border between New York and Vermont, and the Hudson River together formed an important travel route that was used by Indians before the arrival of European colonists.

It was originally announced that the new gauge railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the San Luis Valley of Colorado toward the Rio Grande River.

The Platte River and the North Platte River in the future states of Nebraska and Wyoming typically had many channels and islands and were too shallow, crooked, muddy and unpredictable for travel even by canoe.

The conductor did recall having priests as passengers and this satisfied police, although the conductor also pointed out that in heavily Catholic Fall River there were priests riding on almost every trip the streetcar made, so Morse's statement really proved nothing.

He realized he would need a large facility with a power source for success, and so he built a mill and foundry on the Ruhr River, which unfortunately proved an unreliable stream.

Although the region was sparsely populated, it contained the Paraguay River, which would have given either landlocked country access to the Atlantic Ocean, and there was also speculation, later proved incorrect, that the Chaco would be a rich source of petroleum.

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

These French warships proved to be decisive at the Battle of Yorktown along the coast of Virginia by preventing Lord Cornwallis's British troops from receiving supplies, reinforcements, or evacuation via the James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

It was this lake that eventually proved to be the source of the River Nile.

The Brazos River, which bisected the latter, proved a serious obstacle to county government, and a new county, Navasota, was formed in January 1841.

The canal system which, terminated at the Hudson River near present day Kingston, New York, proved profitable.

When he finally did attack, his forces proved unable to cross the Saranac River bridge, which was held by a small group of American regulars under the command of the recently promoted John E. Wool.

Pastoral leases in the Kakadu area were progressively abandoned from 1889, because the Victoria River and the Barkly Tablelands proved to be better pastoral regions.

Otherwise its location atop a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River proved impregnable to assault by federal troops.

Louisiana proved to be a profitable shipping point on the Mississippi River, and that wealth led to numerous substantial antebellum homes.

During the next 14 years, Bullock acquired land as homesteaders along the Belle Fourche River " proved up " and sold out.

Sedro, on the northern banks of the Skagit River, proved susceptible to floods.

As commerce grew in larger nearby cities, the Vermilion River proved inadequate to large commercial traffic.

Some 13 % of the proved deposits of minerals are the largest of their kind in China, and two-thirds of the deposits are among the largest of their kind in the Yangtze River valley and in south China.

There the Emishi leaders More and Aterui leading a large cavalry force trapped the Yamato infantry and pushed them into the Kitakami River where their heavy armour proved deadly.

While this location was more central and in a prestigious area for museums, the accommodation itself proved cramped and inadequate and in 1936 a new permanent location was found south of the River Thames in Southwark.

However, for the next two days the Prussian cavalry lost sight of the Austrians entirely, although Moltke's guess as to their actions — a retreat to the Elbe River — proved correct.

The treaty also gave Germany the Caprivi Strip, which was added to German South West Africa, thus linking that territory with the Zambezi River, which he had hoped to use for trade and communications with eastern Africa ( the river proved to be unnavigable ).

The RF-80A proved itself in combat during the Korean War and took part in numerous sorties over North Korea as well as sorties along the border with North Korea and China, near the Yalu River.

The River Irwell flows through the town and this position has proved important in its history and development.

The route he discovered in 1793 — ascending the West Road River and descending the Bella Coola River — opened up new sources of fur but proved to be too difficult to be practicable as a trading route to the Pacific.