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The river canyon was the scene of the successful Salween Campaign in World War II, a battle fought by the Chinese against Japan in 1944 – 1945 in order to open up the blockaded Burma Road supply route from India, in combination with a second campaign to remove Japanese forces from northern Burma.
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Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks.
Lake Nasser's waters fill the area through Lower Nubia ( Upper Egypt and northern Sudan ) within the narrow canyon between the cliffs of sandstone and granite created by the flow of the river over many centuries.
At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.
The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.
A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.
" It is speculated that their Hopi guides must have been reluctant to lead them to the river, since they must have known routes to the canyon floor.
There were only a few places where the Snake River was not buried deep in a canyon, and few spots where the river slowed down enough to make a crossing possible.
The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, formed by a horseshoe bend in the river where it flows around Namcha Barwa, is the deepest, and possibly longest canyon in the world.
An entrenched river is a river that is confined to a canyon or gorge, usually with a relatively narrow width and little or no flood plain, and often with meanders worn into the landscape.
A canyon ( occasionally spelled cañon ) or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river.
The Kali Gandaki Gorge in midwest Nepal is seen by others to be the deepest canyon, with a 6400 m ( 21, 000 ft ) difference between the level of the river and the peaks surrounding it.
The river is the largest natural canyon in Europe and the caves that dot the cliffs ( which go as high as 300 m ( 1, 000 feet ) are known for signs of prehistoric inhabitants ( arrowheads and flint knives are often found ).
The Cut Bank Creek river is spanned cliffs to cliffs by a scenic elevated railway bridge high above the canyon floor less than a mile from the edge of the town.
The city is in a river canyon, surrounded by towering mountains.
In 1885 the OR & N station at Biggs was called Spanish Hollow, after the canyon that opens on the river there.
Mapleton residents continue to call Spanish Fork Peak " Maple Mountain " despite the U. S. Board on Geographic Names having opted for the name that refers to the river and canyon that form its south base.
Northwest of the town site of Thorp at the junction of SR 10 and Thorp Highway, the Yakima River emerges from the river canyon parallel to a basalt flow, the uppermost layers of which have been dated to 10. 5 million years.
In the summer the canyon is an excellent place to have a calm river float and enjoy the opportunity to see wildlife that includes big horn sheep and deer.
The Sil flows through a deep canyon and has become a sought-after tourist site for its river cruises and spectacular views.
Within of its source at Lake Tana, the river enters a canyon about long.
He did this not by following the river along its banks and through its impassable canyon, but following it from the highlands above, travelling some by mule in the adjacent country.
Near the northern end of the canyon, Forest Road 4260 ( Lower Imnaha Road ), the last part of which is too rough for most cars, reaches the river at Dug Bar, from Imnaha, Oregon.
* Adventure tourism, jetboats, bungy jump, skiing, river surfing, canyon swing, aerobatic flights, sky diving, mountain biking, paragliding
File: Altaelva canyon. JPG | The canyon carved by the Alta river ( Altaelva ) is the largest in Scandinavia.
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In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.
He had crossed the river which now, beyond the woods yonder, was sliding darkly under the mist.
The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.
What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of the river??
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.
The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.
Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.
It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.
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