Oxbowin'

This is why setting borders based on rivers is fundamentally flawed.

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I mean, you say that now, but if someone stood on the other side of the river and shot arrows at you, would you really disagree with them?
It's all arbitrary anyway...
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- Such a stupid border decision. They should have fixed it in the territory swaps a few years ago.
- Northwest angle
Why? Apart from such cases being rare, everyone gets a half island
- Because they change and move over time. This river definitely didn't start out like this and it almost certainly will look very different in just a few years' time.

Sooner or later they're going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

Known in Australia as Billabongs
- this just shed light on one of my fav song titles by an aussie group, thank you
- walzing mathilda jumpscare
My first thought when seeing this was future home of an ox bow lake
- And not far future! Both bends are within a couple of trees in missing each other.
  
  For those not on the water much, see the beach on the left of the top bow? The opposite side is where the water is deeper and faster. It'll chew through that bank and meet the other side soon enough.
Holy fuck that oxbow lake schematic on wikipedia looks earily like a vessicle coming of a piece of membrane
- The only thing I know about vesicles is that microvesicles are gross... thanks to paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler.

What's the hells an oxbow?! Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry? Someone should tell me, do I need to buy a shield?

Oxbow is when a flowing body of water curves out like this over time. Eventually it will redirect to the older, more direct course, leaving an arc of unflowing water called an oxbow lake. This one might have two.
- Sorry, I was just quoting Mr.Weebl's old video about the subject, probably should have linked it in my original comment XD Youtube link
Oxbow

I don't know much about rivers but based on the floods we had here in Brazil early this year, I don't think that house will be there by the end of the century.

Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick

What little blue house?
- The one with the blue little window.
Or green* might have had a night filter on my phone when i posted that haha

I'm surprised no one shared that

https://youtu.be/8a3r-cG8Wic

Reminds me of a Wild Thornberrys episode I saw when I was a kid where they fell off a boat and needed to cross a mountain to catch it on the other side.

There was no one by the name Tom Bigbee, it seems.

source

The name “Tombigbee” comes from Choctaw “itumbi ikbi“, which means “box maker” or “coffin maker”. There are many stories and legends about how this name came to be. One story is the river was named after a box maker who lived on some of the Tombigbee’s headwaters. Another story is based on the need for box making in the area to ship pelts during the French-dominated fur trade in the 1700’s.

Umm... Choctaw

are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Mississippi and Alabama.