Sentence examples for largest drainage from inspiring English sources

The Simpson is within one of the world's largest drainage basins.

Although not the largest of the world's oceans, the Atlantic has by far the largest drainage area.

The river drains 2,400 square miles (6,216 square km), the largest drainage area in Scotland.

The second longest of Iceland's rivers, Jökulsá á Fjöllum has the largest drainage basin, 3,070 square miles (7,950 square km).

The Mekong one of the world's great river systems is the longest river of mainland Southeast Asia and has the largest drainage basin.

Amazon River, Portuguese Rio Amazonas, Spanish Río Amazonas, also called Río Marañón and Rio Solimões, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin.

Biotelemetry studies have recently shown that significant losses (up to 50%) can occur during downstream migration in two of the largest drainages in North America, the Fraser River in BC and the Columbia River in Washington/Oregon (Welch et al. 2009; Rechisky et al. 2013).

Further, the site is crossed by a large drainage pipe, confirmation that interest in preserving ancient ruins is fairly new.

In large drainage basins the full effects of heavy precipitation may not be immediately realized in the lake water balance because of the time required for basin drainage.

This was moments after he was pulled from a large drainage pipe where he had hidden after a NATO air assault destroyed part of his convoy.

Cardiopulmonary bypass is accomplished by use of large drainage tubes (catheters) inserted in the superior and inferior venae cavae, the large veins that return the blood from the systemic circulation to the right upper chamber of the heart.