Talk:Blue Nile

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[edit] Navigated by 2130?

"The first European to actually navigate the Blue Nile from Lake Tana to the Nile Delta was James Bruce, a Scottish explorer, who undertook the journey in the 1770s. Even then, it took almost another 360 years before the gorge of the Nile was completely mapped."

By my reckoning, this means that the gorge will be mapped by 2130. Don't know how to edit as I'm new to Wikipedia.

Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.20.50.1 (talk) 06:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC).

Actually, nothing in that statement is factually true, to my best nkowledge. Bruce visited the source of the Blue Nile, and later traced part of the course of the Nile, but that part was from around Sennar to the Delta; the portion between the Tis Issat Falls at least as far downstream as Manbuk (also known as Guba) was not visited in one act until the 20th century. -- llywrch 04:22, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

There is a merge proposal at the top of this article, to merge with Abay River. This seems logical to me. Merge the material from Abay into this article, then make Abay a redirect to this article. If there is no objection, I will do this in the near future. Unschool (talk) 01:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)