Nerang River

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The Nerang River is a river in south-eastern Queensland. It starts in the Lamington Plateau on the New South Wales border and heads north, then east where it flows into Moreton Bay at Southport on the Gold Coast. On the Nerang river is the Hinze Dam, creating Advancetown Lake, the Gold Coast's main water supply.

The river was initially named the River Barrow by government surveyor Robert Dixon when he charted the Gold Coast in 1840, after Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty.^[1] The surveyor general Thomas Mitchell later changed many places to Aboriginal names, and this included giving the Nerang River its present name. Neerang is a Yugambeh word meaning "little shark" or "shovel-nosed shark". But the local aboriginal people in fact called the river Mogumbin or Been-goor-abee. And the peoples of the Tweed called it Talgai.