Fly River
river, Papua New Guinea
Fly River, one of the largest rivers of the island of New Guinea, flowing almost wholly through Papua New Guinea. For a short stretch of its middle course, it forms the border between Papua New Guinea on the east and the Indonesian half of the island on the west. Rising on the Star, Kaban, and Hindenburg ranges of the Victor Emanuel Range in the central highlands, the Fly—fed by its principal tributaries, the Strickland, Alice...