Billabong Creek

Billabong Creek is a creek in the Riverina region in New South Wales, Australia. The creek is part of the Murray-Darling River system. It is held to be the longest creek in New South Wales.[1]

The creek headwaters are east of Holbrook in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range and from there it flows in a generally easterly direction across the flat Riverina plain.

It passes through the towns of

before emptying into the Edward River at Moulamein, New South Wales.

The creek has a catchment area of 791 square kilometres (305 sq mi) and is the main present drainange line between the Murray and the Murrumbidgee Rivers.[2] Alluvial deposits from the system fill a long narrow paleovalley that extends for about 150 kilometres (93 mi) between Garryowen to Walla Walla.

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