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Radau
Sign in to saveRadau is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is right tributary of the Oker. It rises in the Harz range, leaves the mountains at Bad Harzburg, and discharges into the Oker near Vienenburg.
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- Instance of
- river
- Official name
- Radau
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bad Harzburg
- Image
- Bad Harzburg asv2022-06 img30 Radau-Wasserfall.jpg
- Length
- 21.1
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- Commons category
- Radau (River)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Oker
- watershed area
- 59.27
- located in protected area
- Harz National Park
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Radau is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is right tributary of the Oker. It rises in the Harz range, leaves the mountains at Bad Harzburg, and discharges into the Oker near Vienenburg.
==Course== thumb|left|The Radau about 100 metres in height above Torfhaus The river rises at around in the Upper Harz region, in a bog known as Torfhausmoor or Radaubornmoor. The raised bog stretches from Torfhaus, a hamlet belonging to the Clausthal-Zellerfeld municipality, to the Brocken massif in the east. The historic peat cutting area today is part of the Harz National Park and can be reached via the scenic trail Goethe Way.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Radau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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