{"id":82810,"date":"2026-01-16T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=82810"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:30:30","slug":"finke-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/finke-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Finke River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Finke River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finke River, known to the Arrernte people as Larapinta, is believed to be the world\u2019s oldest river system.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Finke River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a major but<\/span><b> intermittent river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>central Australia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>starts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>MacDonnell Ranges <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Northern Territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river forms where<\/span><b> two smaller creeks, Davenport and Ormiston, meet.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows for about<\/span><b> 600 kilometers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (370 miles) <\/span><b>towards the Simpson Desert <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><b>South Australia.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is often called &#8220;the<\/span><b> oldest river in the world.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A combination of geological records, weathering profiles, and radionuclide measurements in the surrounding sediments and rocks has enabled scientists to date this river system to the<\/span><b> Devonian (419 million to 359 million) or Carboniferous (359 million to 299 million) period.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Most of the time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Finke River looks like a <\/span><b>series of waterholes.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But <\/span><b>after heavy rains,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it can turn into a <\/span><b>powerful, fast-flowing river.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>During big floods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, its water can even<\/span><b> reach the Macumba River and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-erie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Eyre.<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of its <\/span><b>main smaller rivers that flow into it<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b>Ellery Creek and the Palmer and Hugh Rivers. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/gk-current-affairs\/story\/which-river-is-older-than-the-dinosaurs-2851110-2026-01-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finke River is a major but intermittent river of central Australia. 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