Editing Distributary (section)

==Oceania==
[[File:Fly_River_Delta-txu-oclc-6552576-sc54-4.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Delta of Papua New Guinea's [[Fly River]]]]

===Australia===
A number of the rivers that flow inland from Australia's [[Great Dividing Range]] form distributaries, most of which flow only intermittently during times of high river levels and end in shallow lakes or simply peter out in the deserts. [[Yarriambiack Creek]], which flows from the [[Wimmera River]] into Lake Coorong, and Tyrrell Creek, which flows from the [[Avoca River]] into [[Lake Tyrrell]], are two distributaries in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. The [[Narran River]] flows from the [[Balonne River]] in [[Queensland]] into [[Narran Lake]] in [[New South Wales]].

===Papua New Guinea===
Many of Papua New Guinea's major rivers flow into the [[Gulf of Papua]] through marshy, low-lying country, allowing for wide, many-branched deltas. These include the [[Fly River]], which splits into three major and several minor rivers close to its mouth. The [[Bamu River]] splits into several channels close to its mouth, among them the ''Bebea'', ''Bina'', ''Dibiri'', and ''Aramia''. The [[Kikori River]] also splits into a multitude of channels as it crosses the plains close to the Gulf of Papua. The [[Purari River]] splits into three major channels as it approaches its mouth.

===New Zealand===
New Zealand's second-longest river, the [[Clutha River]], splits into two arms, the ''[[Matau River|Matau]]'' and the ''[[Koua River|Koua]]'', some 10 kilometres from the South Island's Pacific Coast. A large island, [[Inch Clutha]], lies between the two arms. Many of the rivers crossing the [[Canterbury Plains]] in the central South Island are [[braided river]]s, and several of these split into separate branches before reaching the coast. Notable among these is the [[Rangitata River]], the two arms of which are separated by the low-lying [[Rangitata Island]].