Pieman River

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Pieman River
Pieman River

Pieman River

Data
location Tasmania ( Australia )
River system Pieman River
Drain over Pieman River → Southern Ocean
confluence Lake Rosebery
41 ° 44 ′ 7 ″  S , 145 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  E
Source height 190  m
muzzle Southern Ocean at Pieman Head Coordinates: 41 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 55 ′ 22 ″  E 41 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 55 ′ 22 ″  E
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference 190 m
Bottom slope 1.9 ‰
length 99.3 km
Left tributaries Murchison River , Stitt River , Ring River , Piney Creek, Heemskirk River , Healy Creek, Delville Creek
Right tributaries Mackintosh River , Farm Creek, Boco Creek, Marionoak River , Huskisson River , Wilson River , Stanley River , Northridge Creek, Stringer Creek, Owen Meredith River , Paradise River , Whyte River , Savage River , Donaldson River
Reservoirs flowed through Lake Rosebery , Lake Pieman
Communities Primrose, Corinna
Lake Rosebery from Tullah. This is where the Pieman River is created.

The Pieman River is a river in the northwest of the Australian state of Tasmania .

geography

River course

The river arises in Lake Rosebery from the Mackintosh River and the Murchison River , as well as the Farm Creek and the Boco Creek . From there it flows south and forms west of Rosebery to Lake Pieman . This extends along the entire central reaches to the west and northwest. Below the dam, the river enters the Pieman River State Reserve and continues its course to the northwest to the confluence of the Donaldson River , around six kilometers northwest of the Corinna settlement . There it turns to the southwest and flows into the Southern Ocean at Pieman Head .

Tributaries with mouth heights

Reservoirs flowed through

Origin of name

The once widespread rumor that the river was named after an inmate named Alexander Pearce , known as "The Pieman", who was responsible for one of the few cases of cannibalism in Australia, is false. In fact, "The Pieman" the confectioner was Thomas Kent from Southampton , who after 1816 Van Diemen's Land was brought. After a long series of crimes in the colony, he was transferred to the Macquarie Harbor penal colony in 1822 , from where he escaped and was recaptured near the mouth of the river that has since borne his nickname.

Dam construction

The Pieman River was dammed in 1986 by the Reece Dam , creating Lake Pieman .

Similar to Lake Pedder , the construction of the dam was preceded by an uphill battle between environmental groups and Hydro Tasmania . The rest of Australia took relatively little notice of this struggle - there was much more discussion about the planned Franklin Dam , a much more interesting topic in Australia than the regulation of the Pieman River or the King River .

In 1971 the use of the Pieman River and its tributaries to generate electricity was approved by the Tasmanian government and in 1987 the plants were completed. The project included three power plants and five dams on the Pieman River and its tributaries Mackintosh River and Murchison River.

Along with the Upper Gordon Scheme (Lake Pedder), it is Hydro Tasmania's most successful dam project on the west coast to date and was completed at the time of the Franklin Dam dispute. It can be seen as the company's last major dam project in its day as a dam builder. The later projects on the King River and the Henty River required special engineering efforts by Hydro Tasmania, but were significantly smaller and did not last as long.

railroad

The construction of the dams also necessitated the relocation of the Emu Bay Railway . In the reservoirs, a number of historic riverside railway systems disappeared, in particular the Wee Georgie Wood Railway and the North Farrell Tramway Line , both of which were used to transport timber.

tourism

There are important historical logging and mining facilities along the river, as well as other historical industrial facilities.

Trivia

In 1964 the well-known Lithuanian-Australian photographers Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, together with John Hawkins and Howard Dean, went down the Pieman River in a canoe and photographed the river.

Web links

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map

  • Tasmania. Hydro-Electric Commission. Survey Section. (1982) Pieman River power development map [cartographic material] / HEC Map reproduction Survey Section. 1st edition, 1982. Scale 1:60 000 (E 145 ° 05 'E - 145 ° 46' E / 41 ° 37 'S - 42 ° 00' S) Tourist map based on orthophoto, with dams in the Corinna Lake area Mackintosh – Trial Harbor. With power plants, leisure facilities and historical references.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Map of Pieman River, TAS . Bonzle.com
  2. ↑ Dan Sprod: Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbor . Cat & Fiddle Press, 1977, ISBN 0-85853-031-7 , pp. 116-118.
  3. ^ Shooting the Franklin River . Archived from the original on February 21, 2006. Retrieved February 2, 2007.