Goulburn River (Hunter River)
Goulburn River | ||
Goulburn River in Goulburn River National Park |
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Data | ||
location | New South Wales , Australia | |
River system | Hunter River | |
Drain over | Hunter River → Tasman Sea | |
source | south of Ulan 32 ° 17 ′ 37 ″ S , 149 ° 44 ′ 45 ″ E |
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Source height | 434 m | |
muzzle |
Hunter River north of Gundy Coordinates: 32 ° 25 ′ 35 " S , 150 ° 41 ′ 11" E 32 ° 25 ′ 35 " S , 150 ° 41 ′ 11" E |
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Mouth height | 97.3 m | |
Height difference | 336.7 m | |
Bottom slope | 1.5 ‰ | |
length | 221 km | |
Left tributaries | Munmurra River , Krui River , Rocky Creek, Poggy Creek, Tunbridge Creek, Bow River , Merriwa River , Eckfords Creek, Worondi Rivulet, Giants Creek, Wybong Creek | |
Right tributaries | Moolarben Creek, Wollar Creek, Bylong River , Mount Misery Creek, Honeysuckle Creek, Kerrabee Creek, Quarry Creek, Widden Brook, Baerami Creek, Kings Creek | |
Small towns | Ulan, Sandy Hollow, Denman |
The Goulburn River is a river in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales .
course
It rises east of Mudgee , flows east and flows into the Hunter River near the small town of Denman .
The river flows through a wild, sparsely populated area, most of which has been declared Goulburn River National Park .
Tributaries with mouth heights
The main tributaries of the Goulburn River are the Widden Brook , the Krui River, and the Merriwa River .
- Moolarben Creek - 434 m
- Wollar Creek - 336 m
- Munmurra River - 279 m
- Krui River - 263 m
- Rocky Creek - 249 m
- Poggy Creek - 221 m
- Bylong River - 219 m
- Mount Misery Creek - 216 m
- Tunbridge Creek - 192 m
- Bow River - 192 m
- Honeysuckle Creek - 169 m
- Merriwa River - 157 m
- Kerrabee Creek - 155 m
- Querry Creek - 154 m
- Widden Brook - 148 m
- Eckfords Creek - 135 m
- Baerami Creek - 134 m
- Worondi Rivulet - 133 m
- Giants Creek - 120 m
- Wybong Creek - 112 m
- Kings Creek - 103 m
Surname
In 1823 the explorer William Lawson explored the Goulburn River. He named it after Henry Goulburn , a British politician in the 1820s.