Guy Fawkes River

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Guy Fawkes River
Lower and Upper Ebor Falls in the course of the Guy Fawkes River

Lower and Upper Ebor Falls in the course of the Guy Fawkes River

Data
location New South Wales , Australia
River system Clarence River
Drain over Boyd River  → Nymboida River  → Mann River  → Clarence River  → Tasman Sea
source Majors Point in the Snowy Range in New England National Park
30 ° 25 ′ 31 ″  S , 152 ° 25 ′ 10 ″  E
Source height 1410  m
muzzle Boyd River in Guy Fawkes River National Park Coordinates: 29 ° 56 ′ 29 ″  S , 152 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  E 29 ° 56 ′ 29 ″  S , 152 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  E
Mouth height 303  m
Height difference 1107 m
Bottom slope 11 ‰
length 101 km
Left tributaries Doughboy Creek, Aberfoyle River
Right tributaries Pantons Creek, Marengo Creek
Small towns Ebor

The Guy Fawkes River is a river in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . The river flows through the national park of the same name from south to north along the Demon Fault Line .

Surname

The river is named after the English officer Guy Fawkes . With John Oxley's expedition , the first Europeans visited the river and apparently camped on its banks on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5, 1821).

geography

The river rises on the southern slopes of Majors Point in the Snowy Range , an eastern chain of the Great Dividing Range , around eight kilometers east of the small town of Ebor on the Waterfall Way (connecting road Armidale - Coffs Harbor ). Some of the tributaries of the Guy Fawkes River have their source on the slopes of Round Mountain , the tallest mountain in the northern table country of New South Wales. The river then pours over Ebor Falls into a deep valley that runs north through the national park. It is one of the headwaters of the Boyd River , to which it unites together with the Sara River in the center of the national park.

Tributaries with mouth heights

  • Doughboy Creek - 553 m
  • Pantons Creek - 457 m
  • Marengo Creek - 398 m
  • Aberfoyle River - 374 m

vegetation

The largest species of Greville , the Southern Silky Oak ( Grevillea robusta ), grows in the area around the Guy Fawkes River, which is the southern limit of the natural range. It has attractive, yellow-orange flowers and reaches heights of up to 35 m and a diameter of over one meter.

Hiking trails

The Bicentennial National Trail (created for the 200th anniversary of Australia) runs on a cattle drive along the west bank.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map of Guy Fawkes River, NSW . Bonzle.com
  2. ↑ Guy Fawkes River National Park - Information Leaflet . National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales. Sydney (2004)
  3. ^ Sources for Guy Fawkes River . Google.com ( Memento from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 252 kB)
  4. ^ NSW Wilderness Red Index - Guy Fawkes . Colong Foundation of Wilderness Ltd. Sydney (2000)