Fly

Fly, a river of New Guinea, rising in the north-west corner of the British portion of the island; after making a curve westwards into Dutch New Guinea it flows south-east, and pours its waters into the west side of the Gulf of Papua, forming at its mouth a wide delta. First ascended by MacFarlane and D'Albertis in 1875 to a distance of about 90 miles, it was explored in 1885 by Captain Everill for 200 miles, to a point at which it is joined by a large tributary coming from the north-east, more than 300 miles long. The banks of the Fly are densely wooded.