River, creek ,stream or rivulet

G'day Ian,

I don't think that there is an official answer. There are many and varied definitions of each.

I think the blame for this inconsistency mostly lies with our early explorers who did the majority of the naming.

TJ..

It sure is a hard one.

Especially when 2 rivers become a creek and the creek becomes a groove.

I believe it is what you wish to call them. A good example is that there are only two lakes in the "Lake District" of good old England.

That's a toughie -

because it takes Queensland rivers to make one creek in SA -

........

.........................

...............................

The Thomson River, the Barcoo River & the Wilson River make Cooper Creek!

Hi Ian,
The same applies to us.We often wonder.
I'll get hammered here,but you look at the Clarence River full and you look at the Murray River full.
In our minds The Clarence is a River & the Murray is a creek in comparison width wise.!
Down here we have some weird ones to, could it be something like, New born,Toddler,School age, Adolescence,Teenager the Adult! Then dead?

Clouds forms, then it rains & runs down the ground and forms a Rivulet

Like a Rivulet flows into a stream & when several rivulets flow into that stream it then becomes a creek.
When several creeks flow to the same watercourse it becomes a River.
Then if allowed the River flows out to the sea. No matter how big it is! Maybe.??? The life cycle of water.LOL.

I nearly freaked when I first saw the bridge over The Clarence River near the N.SW.,QLD.Border.
Take care Safe travels.
Bye for now Ma.

Probably when the said above water ways were named thats what they looked like at that point in time.

Yes, I've lost count of the number of times I've been standing next to a rivulet and thinking 'no way, this isn't a rivulet, this is a stream'. :-)

In the very early days of settlement Squatters/Graziers were not allowed to take up land on both sides of a river. Thus some rivers were called creeks and a smaller tributory became the so called river. The are some examples of these situations in Qld.

If you study a few maps it becomes apparent that in some cases the so called creek is actually twice the size of the adjacent river.

Have fun Haji-Baba.