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Thames , river, c.15 mi (25 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Yantic and Shetucket rivers at Norwich, E Conn., and flowing south to Long Island Sound at New London. Primarily a tidal estuary, it is New London's harbor and the site of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a U.S. navy submarine base. Since 1878 it has been the scene of Yale-Harvard rowing contests.

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Thames, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA 1. A river in all four countries, those in Canada, New Zealand and the USA being named after the river in England.2. Canada (Ontario): renamed in 1792 from La Tranche.3. UK (England): the Romano‐British name Tamesis or Tamesa is thought to come from a Celtic root tam ‘dark’ to give the ‘Dark(‐coloured) River’. It may be, however, a pre‐Celtic name. In Oxfordshire it is known as the Isis, a form of regression to Tamesis.

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