Longest Creek in Australia??
Submitted: Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:20
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Member -Signman
I’ve come to the conclusion that the longest
creek in Australia must be 6 MILE
CREEK !! I’ve just returned from a trip through Central NSW/Qld, up to the Cape and back down the East coast and must have crossed 6 Mile
Creek about 50 times. Even through Victoria and SA there is traces of this mighty waterway. I’ve worked out it must rise at 6 Mile
Waterhole and then meander all across the country.
A close second must be 12 Mile
Creek.
Reply By: Member - Crazy Dog (QLD) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:41
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:41
Welcome back Signman,
How was it .
Grrr!!!
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Reply By: Rock Ape - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:45
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:45
Yep what makes it so long is 5mile
creek runs into it
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Reply By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:28
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:28
I will put in a vote for Stoney
Creek .
Welcome back .
Willie .
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Reply By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:38
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:38
Im not sure about everyone else but no matter where I go Im always, without to much trouble, find myslef up Sh*t
Creek, so that gets my vote.
Cheers
Greg
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Follow Up By: Member - David B (QLD) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:38
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:38
Greg try this place.
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:51
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:51
i'm always there when it comes to swmbo
its only the depth that varies
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Reply By: Member No 1- Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:43
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:43
your wrong signman
the longest
creek is the murray......
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:50
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:50
Isn't the Murray a river???
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Follow Up By: Big Mike - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:11
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:11
Its a track, thanks to all us Qlders pinching the
water
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Follow Up By: Batman69 - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 14:43
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 14:43
Member No 1,
Hate to be pedantic about this but I always thought that the Darling was in fact the longest at 2739km long and that the Murray (only 2530km long) was the largest.
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Follow Up By: Member - Duncs - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:13
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:13
This could get complicated.
I thought the Clarence was the largest river in NSW. Which would make it larger than the Murray which for most of its length is in NSW.
I guess it all depends on how you measure "large"!
Oh and I agree with Member No 1 about the longest. The Darling wins.
Duncs
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:15
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:15
lets just say they are both creeks...they certainly aint much better than one
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:36
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:36
For the longest rivers data, check out this Geoscience Australia link ==> Site Link
Murray River New South Wales / South Australia 2520
Murrumbidgee River New South Wales / Australian Capital Territory 1575
Darling River (from the
Murray River to Culgoa River) New South Wales 1390
Lachlan River New South Wales 1370
Andrew
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Reply By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:11
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:11
What about
sandy creek....they're everywhere!
Andrew
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Follow Up By: traveller2 - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:16
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:16
Andrew you beat me to it!! As it is the wifes name the kids would always yell out when they saw
Sandy Creek. There are heaps of them!!
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:38
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:38
Yup- I think that could be a debatable statistic !!!
By the way- on OziExplorer, the Murray (river) rates 3 references, the Darling only 1- and Sandy & 6 Mile
Creek rate
well over 40 each...
So there ya go.
6 Mile
Creek is possibly in all states of Australia (incl. Tassie)- so it MUST be the longest
creek (even flows under Bass Strait)...
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:40
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:40
By searching on Geoscience Australia,
Sandy Creek comes up with over 600 locations....i remember somewhere reading there was around 1100+ sandy creeks, though i can't seem to recall the link.
Andrew
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:07
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:07
Didn't you see
Sandy Creek
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Follow Up By: Member -Dodger - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:56
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:56
Nah it also runs into 6 mile.
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Reply By: Ron George - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:09
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:09
I#$@ve just tried to emulate your feat of spelling I`ve with with a Euro $ an a with ohmla & trade mark... now I`m up bleep crk... You`re a bloody genius Signman.
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:54
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 17:54
Dunno how that happened??? All I needed was a ' and got a c€™ instead???
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:22
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:22
Wouldnt be the Longest but Ponton
creek is a pretty impressive waterway that flows infrequently.
Its birthplace is the massive lakes near
leonora Lake rebecca etc and it flows all the way to
lake Boonderoo which was a previosly non descript
salt lake. However 2wice in the last 200 years (74 and 95) cyclonic rain have turned the dry ponton into a raging inland waterway and turned Boonderoo into a vast inland see drowning trees as far as the eye can see with
water that takes over 10 years to evaporate
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Follow Up By: equinox - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:17
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 20:17
Yes!! - the Ponton. '95 - was that Bobby??? did you see it?
Lake Boonderoo is on my list.
Cheers
Alan
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Thursday, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:48
Thursday, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:48
Not in its prime. I kept hearing rumoursof this inland sea peple were taking sailing boats and stuff to but it was a bit hush hush. Finaly in 04 I pegged down the location. there was still a few ks of
water but it was
well down prob dry now. Some poking around found where ponton meets boondaroo and truly shows the extent of the dead trees which at one stage were metres underwater. I have scanned some pics and will upload them when I can (am off to
adelaide this morning)
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Friday, Aug 03, 2007 at 17:49
Friday, Aug 03, 2007 at 17:49
ponton creek
Boonderoo
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Follow Up By: equinox - Friday, Aug 03, 2007 at 21:37
Friday, Aug 03, 2007 at 21:37
Thanks Davoe, they look good
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Reply By: Muddy doe (SA) - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:43
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:43
On the Ororoo to
Hawker road heading to the Flinders there is a dry bed with a nice new
sign that says "S Creek".
Gives me a chuckle every time I go past....
Muddy
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Reply By: Motherhen - Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:59
Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007 at 18:59
I think it must be Stoney Creek - I've crossed Stoney Creek in many areas most of the states I've been too, from FNQ, NSW, SA, WA and in Tassie.
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Reply By: Member - dock - Thursday, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:17
Thursday, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:17
The longest creek has to be Jacobs Creek as they source the grapes for that wine from all over south east Australia
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