i know many of you have been wanting an answer to the question of how the
fly river got its name
the source could have been my old unreliable world atlas
which commits the flagrant error of showing the new guinea bisection
interrupted not only by the fly river just below its middle but also by a
second river comprising a purely fantastic northernmost wet sector at the
top
the result is a long tall stick figure facing west into indonesia
& this is accentuated by the way this atlas has cropped the map
the head of the figure is formed by the fantastic river at the north end &
its codpiece is formed by the fly
there is even a puddle in indonesia just beneath the fly
probably also fantastic
must have been an office party at rand mcnally that day
m
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