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The Snake is
a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States. At 1,078
miles long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest
North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. Rising in western Wyoming, the river flows
through the Snake River Plain then rugged Hells Canyon and the rolling Palouse
Hills to reach its mouth at the Tri-Cities of the state of Washington. Source
The upper course of the River Li is connected by the ancient Lingqu Canal with the Xiang River, which flows north into the Yangtze; this in the past made the Li and Gui Rivers part of a highly important waterway connecting the Yangtze Valley with the Pearl River Delta. The 437-kilometer course of the Li and Gui Rivers is flanked by green hills. Cormorant fishing is often associated with the Lijiang. Its unusual karst topography hillsides have often been compared to those at Halong Bay, Vietnam. Source
Punch Bowl Falls is a waterfall on Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon, United States. Eagle Creek drains into the Columbia River, with its outlet on the Columbia River Gorge in Multnomah County. The falls is 35 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Eagle Creek cuts through a narrow channel and shoots powerfully into a large bowl that resembles a punchbowl. This waterfall was responsible for the waterfall classification type of punchbowl. Source
The Clutha River is the second longest river in New Zealand and the longest in the South Island. It flows south-southeast 338 kilometres through Central and South Otago from Lake Wanaka in the Southern Alps to the Pacific Ocean, 75 kilometres south west of Dunedin. It is the highest volume river in New Zealand, and the swiftest, with a catchment of 21,960 square kilometres, discharging a mean flow of 614 cubic metres per second. The Clutha River is known for its scenery, gold-rush history, and swift turquoise waters. Source
A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. A river sometimes flows over a large step in the rocks that may have been formed by a fault line. Waterfalls can occur along the edge of a glacial trough, where a stream or river flowing into a glacier continues to flow into a valley after the glacier has receded or melted. The large waterfalls in Yosemite Valley are examples of this phenomenon. Source
A beach is a landform
along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake, or river. It usually consists of
loose particles, which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle,
pebbles, or cobblestones. The particles comprising the beach are occasionally
biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Beaches
typically occur in areas along the coast where wave or current action deposits
and reworks sediments. Source
