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Armstrong River (other)
Armstrong River may refer to: * Armstrong River (Manitoba), United States * Armstrong River (Minnesota), United States * Armstrong River (Northern Territory), Australia See also

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Armstrong River (Manitoba)
Armstrong River is a river in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. The river flows east from Armstrong Lake (Manitoba), Armstrong Lake into the Nelson River. Like Armstrong Lake, it was named after H. W. D. Armstrong, who was chief engineer of construction on the Hudson Bay Railway (1910), Hudson Bay Railway in 1912. See also *List of rivers of Manitoba References

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Armstrong River (Minnesota)
The Armstrong River is a river of Minnesota. Armstrong River was named for a mining prospector. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border downstream. It is joined by the Minnesota River at Fort Snel ... References Minnesota Watersheds*USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974) Rivers of St. Louis County, Minnesota Rivers of Minnesota {{Minnesota-river-stub ...
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Armstrong River (Northern Territory)
The Victoria River is a river in the bioregion of Victoria Bonaparte in the Northern Territory of Australia. It flows for from its source south of the Judbarra / Gregory National Park to the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea. History On 12 September 1819, Philip Parker King came to the mouth of the Victoria and, twenty years later, in 1839, Captain J. C. Wickham arrived at the same spot in and named the river after Queen Victoria. Crew members of the Beagle followed the river upstream into the interior for more than . In August 1855 Augustus Gregory sailed from Moreton Bay and at the end of September reached the estuary of the Victoria River. He sailed up the river and carried out extensive exploration. In 1847 Edmund Kennedy went on an expedition to trace the route of the "River Victoria" of Thomas Mitchell with a view to finding whether there was a practical route to the Gulf of Carpentaria. This "River Victoria" was later renamed the Barcoo River. Location and ...
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