This is why setting borders based on rivers is fundamentally flawed.
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It’s all arbitrary anyway…
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The alternative is pretty fucking stupid too. Imagine losing access to your freshwater because the river shifted across an imaginary line. At least when the border is the river, you always have access to the river.
Why? Apart from such cases being rare, everyone gets a half island
Because they change and move over time. This river definitely didn’t start out like this and it almost certainly will look very different in just a few years’ time.
Just recently my country exchanged land with a neighbouring country to adjust for the changes of water, each giving and gaining the same amount of land. When water marks the border it’s much easier to know when you’re crossing it.
Edit: looked it up: in march we (Austria) traded 239 m² with Liechtenstein
Good point, that’s a cool solution too!
I know they’re rich, but they’re so small, you should have just let them keep it.
Sooner or later they’re going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.
Known in Australia as Billabongs
this just shed light on one of my fav song titles by an aussie group, thank you
AC/DC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvtF2Ie90m0
close enough?
walzing mathilda jumpscare
My first thought when seeing this was future home of an ox bow lake
And not far future! Both bends are within a couple of trees in missing each other.
For those not on the water much, see the beach on the left of the top bow? The opposite side is where the water is deeper and faster. It’ll chew through that bank and meet the other side soon enough.
Holy fuck that oxbow lake schematic on wikipedia looks earily like a vessicle coming of a piece of membrane
The only thing I know about vesicles is that microvesicles are gross… thanks to paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler.
Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick
What little blue house?
The one with the blue little window.
And the blue corvette…
And everything is blue for him…
And himself and everybody around…
Or green* might have had a night filter on my phone when i posted that haha
I don’t know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don’t think that house will be there by the end of the century.
Reminds me of a Wild Thornberrys episode I saw when I was a kid where they fell off a boat and needed to cross a mountain to catch it on the other side.
There was no one by the name Tom Bigbee, it seems.
The name “Tombigbee” comes from Choctaw “itumbi ikbi“, which means “box maker” or “coffin maker”. There are many stories and legends about how this name came to be. One story is the river was named after a box maker who lived on some of the Tombigbee’s headwaters. Another story is based on the need for box making in the area to ship pelts during the French-dominated fur trade in the 1700’s.
Umm… Choctaw
are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Mississippi and Alabama.
Is it an oxbow or a puppyhammer?
