Channel Country
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The Channel Country is a region of outback Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. The name comes from the numerous in
Aerial photo of the Channel Country / Cooper Creek, 2007
Braided river
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A braided river consists of a network of river channels separated by small, often temporary, islands called braid bars or, in British English usage, aits or eyots.
Channel Country
…Australia mostly in the state of Queensland but also in parts of South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. The name comes from the numerous intertwined rivulets that cross the region, which cover 150,000 km². The Channel Country is over the Cooper and Eromanga geological basins and the Lake Eyre Basin drainage…
The Rakaia River in the South Island of New Zealand is braided over most of its course
The White River in the U.S. state of Washington transports a large sediment load from the Emmons Glacier of Mount Rainier, a young, rapidly eroding volcano.
Brahmaputra River seen from the Space Shuttle
Tagliamento River seen from the Pinzano bridge