Confluence

A confluence generally refers to the intersection of 2 or more rivers.  The picture at the right is the confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers.  There can also be coordinate confluences.

Every place around the world has a latitude and longitude.  For instance, Parliament House in Hobart (pictured at left), has the coordinates:

latitude 42° 53.129S      longitude 147° 19.806E

Notice the coordinates are not WHOLE numbers!

There are many places on the Earth where BOTH the latitude and longitude intersect with whole numbers.  For instance:

latitude 42° 00.000S      longitude 147° 00.000E

At places where this occurs they are said to have coordinate confluence