Musa River
Appearance
Musa | |
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![]() The Musa River is on the east coast, south of the latitude of Port Morsby and just north of Cape Nelson. | |
Location | |
Country | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Gulf |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Papua New Guinea |
Mouth | |
• location | Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea |
Basin size | 4,813 km2 (1,858 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 319 m3/s (11,300 cu ft/s) |
• minimum | 76 m3/s (2,700 cu ft/s) |
• maximum | 618 m3/s (21,800 cu ft/s) |
The Musa is a river on the eastern side of the Papuan Peninsula, in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the primary rivers on Oro Province. Its mouth exits into Dyke Ackland Bay.[1]
A plan to dam the river in 1975 caused local opposition.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Murray, J.H.P. Papua; or British New Guinea, pp. 107-08 (1912)
- ^ May, R.J. State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years, p. 64-65 (2001)
- Smith, John Wallis; Green, David Headley (1961). The Geology of the Musa River Area, Papua. Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
9°03′S 148°55′E / 9.050°S 148.917°E