A Wisdom Archive on Ocean

In the United Kingdom, there are several regional names for a stream: Beck is used in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. Brook is used in the Midlands. Burn is used in Scotland and North East England. Stream is limited to Southern England. In North America: Kill in New York and New Jersey comes from a Dutch language word, as in Peekskill (Peek's Kill), Fishkill (Fish Kill), and Fresh Kills. Branch, fork, or prong can refer to tributaries t ...

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In the United States, an intermittent stream is one that only flows for part of the year and is marked on topographic maps with a line of blue dashes and dots. A wash or desert wash is normally a dry streambed in the deserts of the American Southwest which flows only after significant rainfall. Washes can fill up quickly during rains, and there may be a sudden torrent of water after a thunderstorm begins upstream, such as during monsoonal condi ...

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The length of a river is not always easy to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the precise measurement of the river length between source and mouth. As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there is disagreement whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river. The source of a river may be hard to determine because a river typically has many tributaries. Among the many sources, the one that is farthest away from t ...

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One should take the aforementioned discussion into account when using the data in the following table. For most rivers, different sources provide conflicting information on the length of a river system. The information in different sources is between parentheses. Notes: When the length of a river is followed by an asterisk (*), it is an average of multiple sources. If the difference in lengths between given sources is significant, all lengths are listed. Likewise, if the lengths from secondary sources are similar themselv ...

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The entire basin drained by the stream is termed the watershed. Every watershed is made up of smaller watersheds, while most watersheds are parts of larger watersheds. For instance, the Continental Divide in North America divides the Atlantic Ocean watershed from the Pacific Ocean watershed, but the Atlantic Ocean watershed may be first divided into the Atlantic Ocean drainage and the Gulf of Mexico drainage. This delineation within the United States is termed the Eastern Continental Divide. The Gulf of Mexico watershed may be divided into Mississippi River basin and a number of smaller watersheds, s ...

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Milk Ocean
See Ocean of Milk.

 
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Plaksha-dvipa
One of the nine “islands” surrounding Mount Meru in Bhu-mandala. Bounded on its inner side by the Ocean of Salt and on its outer side by the Ocean of Liquor, it forms the second ring of land beyond Meru. It is ruled by Idhmajihva, a son of Priyavrata.

 
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Ocean of Milk
One of the seven oceans surrounding the “islands” of Jambudvipa, the earthly planetary system. Within the Ocean of Milk lies an eternal spiritual planet, Svetadvipa, the abode of Kshirodaka-shayi Vishnu.

 
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Sapta Samudra (Sanskrit). The "seven oceans ". These have an occult significance on a higher plane.

 
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Sansara (Sanskrit). Lit., "rotation"; the ocean of births and deaths. Human rebirths represented as a continuous circle, a wheel ever in motion.

 
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Rutas (Sanskrit). An ancient people that inhabited the above island or continent in the Pacific Ocean.

 
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Mandara (Sanskrit). The mountain used by the gods as a stick to churn the ocean of milk in the Puranas.

 
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Atlantis (Ancient Greek) The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teachings and Plato.

 
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Kshira Samudra (Sanskrit). Ocean of milk, churned by the gods.

 
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Varuna
The demigod who presides over water and the oceans.

 
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Halahala: a mythological poison, the first product to result from the churning of the ocean of milk by the gods and demons.

 
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