Great Anabranch River
river, Australia
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The Great Anabranch River is a distributary of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. It branches off below the Menindee Lakes and rejoins the Murray River approximately 300 miles downstream. Anabranching rivers are a type of river channel pattern where streams leave and then link up again with the main river. The Darling River system, of which the Great Anabranch is a part, drains a large basin and experiences fluctuations in water flow due to droughts and floods.12
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