Tumbarumba Creek

Tumbarumba Creek
Watercourse[1]
Name origin: Aboriginal:
1. (Wiradjuri) dhamba dhamba, meaning "very soft"[2]
2. words for "hollow sounding ground", "thunder", "sound" or "place of big trees".[3]
Country Australia
State New South Wales
Regions IBRA: Australian Alps, Riverina, Snowy Mountains, South West Slopes
Local government area Tumbarumba
Part of Murray River, Murray–Darling basin
Tributaries
 - left Maragle Creek, Paddys River
 - right Mannus Creek
Source Tumbarumba Hill, Snowy Mountains
 - location south of Laurel Hill
 - elevation 611 m (2,005 ft)
Mouth confluence with the Tooma River
 - location south of Tooma
 - elevation 252 m (827 ft)
Length 30 km (19 mi)
Nature reserve Bogandyera Nature Reserve
[1][4]

Tumbarumba Creek, a watercourse[1] of the Murray catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the region bordering the Riverina and Australian Alps of New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features

The creek rises below Tumbarumba Hill, south of Laurel Hill, on the western slopes of the Snowy Mountains, and its natural flow drains generally south, joined by three tributaries including Paddys River, before reaching its confluence with the Tooma River, south of the village of Tooma; descending 358 metres (1,175 ft) over its 30 kilometres (19 mi) course.[1][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tumbarumba Creek". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. McNicol, Sally; Hosking, Dianne (1994). "Wiradjuri". Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library. p. 98.
  3. "Tumbarumba". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Map of Tumbarumba Creek". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

External links

Coordinates: 35°56′S 148°03′E / 35.933°S 148.050°E / -35.933; 148.050


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