A more expensive scheme, involving the construction of a new cut to link the River Yare to the River Waveney, together with a channel between Oulton Broad and Lake Lothing, where a sea lock was needed, was also opposed by Yarmouth, but formed the basis of a Bill to Parliament.

An Act of Parliament was passed on 28 May 1827, creating the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company, and the work of construction and dredging of the River Yare and the Oulton Dyke was completed in 1833.

The point at which the River Yare and the River Waveney merge into Breydon Water

There are seven navigable rivers, the River Yare and its ( direct and indirect ) tributaries the Rivers Bure, Thurne, Ant, Waveney, Chet and Wensum.

The River Bure is a tributary of the River Yare which rises near Aylsham in Norfolk and joins the Yare just downstream of Breydon Water.

The River Yare rises south of Dereham and flows through the southern fringes of the city of Norwich, passes through Breydon Water and flows into the sea between Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.

The River Chet is a tributary of the River Yare.

The River Waveney is a tributary of the River Yare, joining that river just upstream of Breydon Water.

The River Wensum rises near Fakenham in north-west Norfolk and flows south-east and through the centre of the city of Norwich before joining the River Yare just to the east of the city.

Although the Wensum is the larger of the two rivers at their confluence, it is regarded as a tributary of the River Yare.

It is located at the mouth of the River Yare, east of Norwich.

The town itself is on a thin spit sandwiched between the North Sea and River Yare.

Great Yarmouth ( Gernemwa, Yernemuth ) lies near the site of the Roman fort camp of Gariannonum at the mouth of the River Yare.

It is plac'd on a peninsula between the River Yare and the sea ; the two last lying parallel to one another, and the town in the middle: The river lies on the west-side of the town, and being grown very large and deep, by a conflux of all the rivers on this side the county, forms the haven ; and the town facing to the west also, and open to the river, makes the finest key in England, if not in Europe, not inferior even to that of Marseilles itself.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

The Connecticut River cuts through the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound.

The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.

The Oder River cuts across the middle of the voivodeship.

The Yellow River is called " the cradle of Chinese civilization " as its basinspecifically, the Wei valley that cuts across the long Ordos loopwas the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilizations and the most prosperous region in early Chinese history.

Just northeast of the town the River Mole cuts a steep-sided valley through the North Downs.

The slide flowed northwestward into Shasta Valley, where the Shasta River now cuts through the flow.

There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the ' Sanford Arms ', which almost certainly derives from ' Sand Ford ', so this adds weight to the suggestion that ' Guildford ' is a corruption of ' Gold Ford ', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.

The Columbia River cuts a deep and wide gorge around the rim of the Columbia Plateau, and through the Cascade Range on its way to the Pacific Ocean.

The Sutter Bypass, which diverts flood waters from the Sacramento River, cuts through the heart of Sutter County.

Sprewell Bluff is a area of climbing river bluffs formed by the Flint River as it cuts through Oak Mountain.

The prototype of this was used to span Mother Siller's Channel which cuts through the nearby Stanpit Marshes, an area of marshland at the confluence of the River Avon ( Hampshire ) and the River Stour, Dorset.

The area is notorious for the flooding it experiences every spring from the Grand River, which cuts through the eastern side of Comstock Park.

The main geographic featurew of Hersey Township is the Elk Creek which cuts eastward through the county, eventually flowing into the Des Moines River system.

The Potomac makes up the northern border and the Cacapon River cuts through the center of the county connecting with the Potomac at Great Cacapon.

Warm Springs Run cuts through the center of the town and eventually connects with the Potomac River near the Hancock Station.

A finger of Rågø Strait cuts into the former municipality forming Sakskøbing Fjord and then Sakskøbing River ( Sakskøbing å ), which meanders through the former municipality, as well as through Nykøbing Falster and Nysted until it terminates near the town of Bregninge.

Two cuts were made in the Cambridgeshire Fens to join the River Great Ouse to the sea at King's Lynn – the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River, the latter being known also as the Hundred Foot Drain.

The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal or Gloucester and Berkeley Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness ; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham.

The Belaya River with the town of Ufa cuts through the center.

The Yangtze River, the longest river of China, cuts through the province in the south and reaches the East China Sea.

Situated where the valley of the River Lea cuts its way through the north-east end of the Chiltern Hills, the airport occupies a hill-top location, with a roughly drop-off at the western end of the runway

When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

The battle of the Naktong River is just one example of how the battle cry and the spirit of The Fighting Seventh have paid off.

* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

* 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Richard Dawkins in his book River Out of Eden used the computer bootstrapping concept to explain how biological cells differentiate: " Different cells receive different combinations of chemicals, which switch on different combinations of genes, and some genes work to switch other genes on or off.

His forces met little resistance, burning numerous towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the Loire River at Tours.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

From Allsopp Point the road followed the existing road towards Bartica and branched off from Bartica going to Teperu in the lower reaches on the Mazaruni River.

In April 1792 he encountered American Captain Robert Gray off the coast of Oregon just prior to Gray's sailing up the Columbia River.

For example, four miles past the Ineyzane River, after the British had comfortably crossed, and after they had spent a day consolidating their advance, the Zulu finally launched a typical " buffalo horn " encirclement attack that was seen off with withering fire from not only breach-loading Martini-Henry rifles, but 7-pounder artillery and Gatling guns.

US Airways Flight 1549 was Write-off | written off after ditching into the Hudson River

It began to take off in 1847 when the Main Street Bridge was constructed over the Grand River.

It is then thought to be traditional for some people to jump off Magdalen Bridge into the River Cherwell.

Some natural gas was discovered in 1974 in the Kudu Field off the mouth of the Orange River, but the extent of this find is only now being determined.

It has its headwaters in the Ecuadorian province of Cotapaxi, flowing off of the northwestern slopes of the volcano Cotopaxi and known as the Patate River.

Asterius was arrested for this action by the prefect Alexander and then killed by being thrown off a bridge into the Tiber River.

In 1444 Dinis Dias went off the mouth of the Senegal River to reach the westernmost point of Africa he calls Cabo Verde, Cape Vert, because of the lush vegetation seen there.

At approximately 9: 40 AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city ; in an approximately 45-minute " final tour ".

Helston once headed the estuary of the River Cober, before it was cut off from the sea by Loe Bar in the 13th century.

One of the hunting groups sent by the British Admiralty to search for Graf Spee, comprising three Royal Navy ( RN ) cruisers,, and ( the last of the New Zealand Division ), found and engaged their quarry off the estuary of the River Plate off the coast of Argentina and Uruguay in South America.

This famous victory gave the Union full control of the Mississippi River, split off the western Confederacy, and opened the way for more Union triumphs.

On December 13, 1939 the Battle of the River Plate took place off the coast of Uruguay between British forces and the German " pocket battleship " Admiral Graf Spee.