river island
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landmass or fluvial landform within a river
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Within Vinony's link graph, river island is referenced by 425 other articles, and connects out to river, Manhattan and River Thames.
It sits within the topics Fluvial landforms, Geomorphology and Incomplete lists from May 2022.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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River islands in the Chico River, Philippines Satellite picture of Csepel Island in Hungary which is south of Budapest city centre
A river island is any exposed landmass surrounded by river water. Properly defined, it excludes shoals between seasonally varying flows and may exclude semi-coastal islands in river deltas such as Marajó.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “river island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.