User:Geo Swan/Mike River

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Greetings Mike!

The last time I visited you and your mom you read out to me a very interesting article about the mighty Amazon river. You read it very well!

I told you I am very interested in rivers. In the last year or so I have contributed some maps to the wikipedia, and some of them have been maps of rivers. I used a cool online map creation tool for making these maps, or starting to make these maps.

Grand River Ontario
Grand River Ontario

The first map of a river I made was this one, of the Grand River, one of the larger rivers in Ontario. Of course the Niagara River and the St Lawrence River, that drain the Great Lakes are bigger. But of the rivers that flow into the Great Lakes it is one of the largest. I lived in Kitchener-Waterloo, one of the cities that sits on that river.

Do you know the names of the creeks and rivers that flow through Toronto? I grew up near Mimico Creek. And I contributed to the wikipedia's coverage of Mimico Creek. The other five rivers and creeks that flow through Toronto are Etobicoke Creek, the Humber River, the Don River, Highland Creek and the Rouge River.

But, right around where we live there were over have a dozen creeks that have been filled in or paved over. And there is an interesting web-site, devoted to them, the lost rivers of Toronto. Here is the page devoted to our neighbourhood.

Mackenzie River drainage basin
Mackenzie River drainage basin
Watershed of the Saskatchewan River
Watershed of the Saskatchewan River

Here is a link to the wikipedia's article about the Mackenzie River. It is the longest river in Canada, and the second longest river in North America. Did you know about this river? Do you know the name of the longest river in North America. It flows into the Arctic Ocean. I created the map of its "watershed", or "drainage basis". That means all the rivers that flow into it. It took me a couple of hours.

The wikipedia has a rule that all the contributions, the images, and the text, have to be made available so other people can copy them. Most pictures and text on the internet belong to someone, and you aren't allowed to copy them. What the wikipedia article about the Nile River needs, is a similar map, of its drainage basin. Would you like to create one? Or would you like to help me create one? Or, if we don't have time for that, maybe we can create a map directly overhead of Ethiopia? Or directly overhed of Toronto? I made some maps directly overhead of a bunch of places, but I never made one for Toronto. Here are some maps we can look at together: