Fly River
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The Fly is the longest river of the island of New Guinea. (Although the Sepik also claims to be the longest) The first European exploration was in 1845 by Captain Blackwood in the British naval ship, the Fly, after which the river is named. It rises in the Star Mountains, and crosses the southwestern lowlands before reaching the Gulf of Papua in a large estuary. The Fly has a length of 1050 km (650 miles); it flows through Papua New Guinea except for a small stretch where it forms the boundary between Papua New Guinea and the Indonesia province of Papua. This section is the only part of the Papua New Guinea/Indonesia border which is not on the 141°E longitude line, thus giving Papua New Guinea a small area to the west of this line.
The principal tributaries of the Fly are the Strickland and the Ok Tedi. The Ok Tedi Mine, criticized for its environmental record is located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi in the town of Tabubil.
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