| La Trobe River | |
| River | |
| Name origin: Named by W. A. Brodribb in 1841 after C. J. La Trobe, Lieutenant
Governor of the Port Phillip District.[1] |
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| Country | Australia |
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| State | Victoria |
| Region | Gippsland |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Ada River, Loch River, Toorongo River, Tanjil River, Tyers River, Thomson River |
| - right | Moe River, Narracan Creek, Morwell River, Traralgon Creek, Flynns Creek |
| Source | Noojee |
| - location | Great Dividing Range, Victoria |
| - elevation | 600 m (1,969 ft) |
| Mouth | |
| - location | Lake Wellington, Australia |
| - elevation | 1 m (3 ft) |
The La Trobe River is a river in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It begins in the area between Powelltown and Noojee where it shares a watershed with the Little Yarra River, a tributary of the Yarra River, and has a number of tributaries joining it from the southern slopes of the Baw Baw plateau, part of the Australian Alps. It first flows in an easterly direction, then south, and then east again through the Latrobe Valley into Lake Wellington, one of the Gippsland Lakes. Tributaries include the Moe, Tanjil and Tyers Rivers.
Lake Narracan is a storage reservoir on the river near Newborough, Victoria, built to supply cooling water for the nearby brown coal fired power stations.
The river was Named by W. A. Brodribb in 1841 after C. J. La Trobe, Lieutenant Governor of the Port Phillip District.[1]
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