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Rivers. The inlet itself is 10 kilometres (6 mi) long and 2 kilometres (1 mi) wide with an area of 14 square kilometres (5 sq mi), and receives an annual flow of 5 million cubic metres. The central basin has an area of 8.6 square kilometres (3 sq mi) with intertidal
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