Markham (river)

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Markham
Location of the Markham in Papua New Guinea

Location of the Markham in Papua New Guinea

Data
location Papua New Guinea
River system Markham (river)
Drain over Markham → Pacific Ocean
source in the Finisterre Mountains
6 ° 6 ′ 30 ″  S , 146 ° 11 ′ 30 ″  E
Source height 475  m
muzzle Huongolf coordinates: 6 ° 44 ′ 20 "  S , 146 ° 58 ′ 5"  E 6 ° 44 ′ 20 "  S , 146 ° 58 ′ 5"  E
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference 475 m
Bottom slope about 2.6 ‰
length about 180 km
Right tributaries Watuf / Watuf
Big cities Lae
Navigable on 70 km
NASA World Wind full length satellite image of Markham, Lae to the left, looking west

NASA World Wind full length satellite image of Markham, Lae to the left, looking west

The Markham is a river in eastern Papua New Guinea , which has its source in the Finisterre Mountains , flows through the Markham Valley and after a little more than 180 km flows into the Huongolf at Lae .

The river was named after Clements Markham by Captain John Moresby in 1873 in honor of the then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . R. Neubaus first entered the river in its lower reaches in 1909 over a length of 70 km. The right-hand tributary Watuf was discovered in 1912 and 1913. Today this tributary is called the Watut .

swell

  1. ^ Gavin Souter: New Guinea: The Last Unknown . Angus & Robertson, 1963, ISBN 0207946272 , p. 77. (Eng.)
  2. ↑ The Markham River in the German Colonial Lexicon (1920), Volume 2, p. 508, on uni-frankfurt.de, accessed November 11, 2007
  3. ↑ tributary of Markham in the German Colonial Lexicon (1920), on uni-frankfurt.de accessed 11 November, 2007.