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    The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel located on the border of Minnesota and South Dakota that connects Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake. It has an unusual distinction as a valley that is crossed by a continental divide, allowing water to occasionally flow between drainage basins during floods. In the past, the Traverse Gap marked the border between British territory to the north and U.S. or French territory to the south.

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    The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel located on the border of Minnesota and South Dakota that connects Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake. It has an unusual distinction as a valley that is crossed by a continental divide, allowing water to occasionally flow between drainage basins during floods. In the past, the Traverse Gap marked the border between British territory to the north and U.S. or French territory to the south.

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    The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel located on the border of Minnesota and South Dakota that connects Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake. It has an unusual distinction as a valley that is crossed by a continental divide, allowing water to occasionally flow between drainage basins during floods. In the past, the Traverse Gap marked the border between British territory to the north and U.S. or French territory to the south.

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    Traverse Gap

    The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel occupied by Lake Traverse, Big Stone Lake and the
    valley connecting them at Browns Valley, Minnesota. It is located on the border of the U.S. states
    of Minnesota and South Dakota. Traverse Gap has an unusual distinction for a valley: it is
    crossed by a continental divide,[1] and in some floods water has flowed across that divide from
    one drainage basin to the other. Before the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 it marked the
    border between British territory in the north and U.S. – or earlier, French – territory in the south.

    The Traverse Gap is the depressed spillway channel between Lake Traverse (top) and Big Stone Lake, cut through the Big
    Stone Moraine (NW to SE on this image).
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    Topography and hydrology

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