One night on the Naktong River, Mel Chandler called on that fabled esprit de corps.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

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* 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

The Batavi were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico, as living on an island formed by the Rhine River after it splits, one arm being the Waal the other the Lower Rhine / Old Rhine ( hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, " Island of the Batavi ").

* http :// www. chateaudevayres. com / home. html In French and English, with views of the Castle by Louis de Foix, the 16th century French Engineer who deviated the River Adour near Bayonne.

Examples include Basse Saône, Canal de Mines de Fer de la Moselle, and Aisne River.

French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware.

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

Hernando de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the Baja California peninsula, meant to be coordinated with Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary.

* 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

He was alarmed by the Spanish diplomat Don Diego de Gardoqui, who in 1785 tried to convince Congress to allow Spain to close the Mississippi River to American traffic for 30 years.

The first documented European visit to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River.

In 1714 Etiene Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont ascended the Missouri as far as the mouth of the Cheyenne River in central South Dakota.

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by here the Mississippi River for France, he named it, meaning " Land of Louis ".

* 1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.

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Named after the thundering waters of the Kawarau River.

In 1986, Ged Hay began taking his body board down the Kawarau River near Queenstown in New Zealand while on his days off as a rafting guide.

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Accompanied by Māoris, he walked from Tuturau ( Southland ) to the lake via the Kawarau River, later returning by a raft floating down the Clutha.

Cromwell lay at the confluence of the Clutha River and Kawarau River, which was noted for the difference between the colours of the waters of the two rivers and also for the historic bridge at the convergence of the two.

Kawarau River with Roaring Meg hydro station

Kawarau River drains Lake Wakatipu, in northwestern Otago, New Zealand.

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The lake is drained by the Kawarau River, which flows out from the lake's Frankton Arm, east of Queenstown.

The river flows generally south from the Southern Alps on its journey running through the Skippers Canyon, before draining into the Kawarau River east of Queenstown.

It is a tributary of the Kawarau River, which in turn feeds into the Clutha.

It flows north for 40 kilometres through rough country before meeting the Kawarau River, of which it is a tributary.

According to oral tradition in the early 18th century Tuwiriroa moved from Tititea on the Kawarau River near modern Queenstown and built a pa, ( fortified settlement ), Motupara, near Taieri Mouth.

* Roaring Meg hydro scheme, a hydroelectric scheme on the Kawarau River in New Zealand

* Bannockburn, is located on the southern banks of the Kawarau River near Cromwell and is a very warm area that was known by gold miners as “ the Heart of the Desert ”.

About 250 hectares of vines are planted on sloping land on the southern bank of the Kawarau River.

* The Cromwell Basin contains the highest concentration of vines in an area bounded by the Kawarau River, Lake Dunstan and the Pisa mountain range.