Purari

Wabo is in lush jungle with vibrant bird life, and a dam would flood the sparsely populated banks of the Purari River.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

The bodies of a dozen men from Wabo washed up in the Purari last year, near the wellhead for gas projects operated by InterOil Corp., as landowner tensions spiraled out of control.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

Origin's plan, which analysts estimate would cost more than US$5 billion, involves laying a cable from Wabo, near the Purari River in Papua New Guinea, along the seabed of the Torres Strait and on to Townsville, where it would connect with Queensland's electricity grid.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

The longest and deepest stretches of mangroves are found on the south side of the island, especially at the mouths of the Purari, Kikori, Fly, Northwest, and Otakwa Rivers, Bintuni Bay, and the southern portions of the Vogelkop Peninsula.

New Guinea mangroves 2007

The upper limit of Sonneratia lanceolata is taken to be the boundary between brackish and freshwater reaches of the Purari delta.

New Guinea mangroves 2007

This ecoregion is made up of the freshwater swamp forests associated with low-gradient river systems (Purari and Fly rivers) along the southern coast of New Guinea.

Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests 2007

Purari [37] delta, for they had left behind them the rolling breakers of the Gulf of Papua in order to explore this dark river.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

On the southern coast the principal rivers are the Purari or Queen's Jubilee

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913