All Rivers Flow South?

[Chris Plumb]

I think you'd have avoided a lot of the debate if you'd posed the question which is the only river to run due North! !

 

I no I don't read the Weeklies (Waterlog's the only angling periodical I read these days) - though the same question did come up on BFW recently!

 

 

C.

 

ps The sky is blue due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

 

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

 

[ 29. September 2005, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Chris Plumb ]

[Mat Hillman]

The River Wandle flows almost due north through south London and Joins the Thames at Wandsworth

 

Mat

[Guest rabbit]

Chris

Why would I want to avoid debate..? This is NOT the Labour conference. Anyway thanks for the lesson, the same factors apply to babies eyes all being blue, (mostly)

[DonRamos]

Chris Plumb:

The sky is blue due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

 

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

Well I never knew that.

 

Learn a new thing every day.

 

Cheers Chris

[the nudster]

there are loads of rivers that dont run south ....

 

have a look at this map

 

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/mapengwa.jpg

[Peter Waller]

The Broads rivers all flow East. And the Waveney flows East with a tad of North in it. When the Waveney was joined to the Rhine it flowed West, but that was a long time ago.

[GlennB]

Newt:

Rivers flow south? Errr, doesn't the Thames pretty much flow east?

 

I looked at Rivers That Flow North which lists most of them, worldwide (and there aren't many) and except for Ireland's Bann & Erne, there don't seem to be any north flowing rivers over your way.

Strange list - doesn't include The Rhine, which chugs way N until it does a W turn at the end.

[Newt]

Rivers That Flow North

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Below is a partial list of rivers (length listed when known) that do just that. We haven't listed rivers that run to the northwest, or rivers that don't meet the exact requirements.

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[GlennB]

A Worm On One End........:

Rivers that flow S to N in England (or as near as dam it)

 

Great Ouse

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Trent

 

Not many I suppose. Possibly due to Ice Age flow largely from North?

Probably due to the fact the England doesn't have much of a N coast for the rivers to flow into

 

Siberia is absolutely teeming with N flowing rivers. Ditto Canada, Lapland and the N coast of S America.

[Guest rabbit]

My point was that only one river that flows south to north entirely along its length. That is true of the Isbourne which is the only river that has that characteristic. The head of the river is south of Winchcombe and then flows due north to reach its destination on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham.

The Trent for example runs from Stoke on Trent to Burton on Trent which is of course heading south.

Good stuff thanks for all the interesting facts.