Avon River (Gippsland, Victoria)

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Avon River (Gippsland, Victoria) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 38°2′57″S 147°16′7″E / 38.04917°S 147.26861°E

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Avon
On the Avon River near Stratford.
Location of the Avon River mouth in Victoria
Etymology	Originally called the Avoca; named the Avon by Angus McMillan^[1]^[2]^[3]
Native name	Dooyeedang^[4]^[5] (Kurnai) Adige^[6] (Kurnai)
Location
Country	Australia
State	Victoria
Region	South East Corner (IBRA), South East Coastal Plain (IBRA), West Gippsland
Local government area	Wellington
Physical characteristics

Source	Mount Wellington, Great Dividing Range
• location	Miler Spur, Avon Wilderness Park
• coordinates	37°30′38″S 146°51′44″E / 37.51056°S 146.86222°E / -37.51056; 146.86222
• elevation	664 m (2,178 ft)

Mouth	Lake Wellington
• location	east of Sale; southeast of Stratford
• coordinates	38°2′57″S 147°16′7″E / 38.04917°S 147.26861°E / -38.04917; 147.26861
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	122 km (76 mi)
Basin features
River system	West Gippsland catchment
Tributaries
• left	Turton River, Valencia Creek, Freestone Creek, Blackall Creek, Perry River
• right	Mount Hump Creek, McColl Creek, Ben Cruachan Creek, Navigation Creek, Nuntin Creek
National park	Avon Wilderness Park
^[7]^[8]

The Avon River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the West Gippsland region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The Avon, forms an important part of the Latrobe sub-catchment, draining the south eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, to form the Gippsland Lakes.

Location and features

The Avon River rises on the south eastern slopes of Mount Wellington, below Miller Spur, part of the Great Dividing Range within the Avon Wilderness Park.^[9] The rivers flows in a highly meandering course generally south, then east, then south by southeast, joined by ten tributaries including the Turton River and the Perry River, before reaching its mouth to form Lake Wellington east of Sale and southeast of Stratford. Within Lake Wellington, the Avon forms its confluence with the Latrobe River, empties into Bass Strait via the Mitchell River south of Lakes Entrance. The river descends 664 metres (2,178 ft) over its 122-kilometre (76 mi) course.^[8]

The upper reaches are contained in the rugged, heavily forested and largely inaccessible, Avon Wilderness Park. The river passes through forested hillsides, then cleared agricultural land. Around Stratford the river has dug a wide channel up to 500 metres (1,600 ft) across, composed mainly of sand banks and pebble banks. The river then forms a boundary for the Macallister Irrigation District, with Nuntin Creek joining 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) downstream of Stratford contributing a large amount of irrigation drainage to the river.

Considerable demand is placed on the Latrobe and Thomson Rivers for supply of Melbourne's water, industrial use in Australia's largest pulp and paper mill and the power industry in the Latrobe Valley, and for irrigation. The Avon escapes any major impoundment or diversion.

The river was important to the indigenous Gunai/Kurnai people, highlighted by Knob Reserve, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Stratford, being part of the Gunai/Kurnai Bataluk Cultural Trail. The trail highlights the places of cultural significance to the first inhabitants across East Gippsland.^{[citation needed]}

Etymology

In the Brataualung language, two names have been recorded for the river, Dooyeedang, with no defined meaning;^[4]^[5] and Kutbuntaura-wurk, Kurbuntaura referring to a section of the Brataua clan meaning "fire carriers" who lived on the upper Avon River, and wurk, meaning "land" or "country".^[6]^[10] Kutbuntaura-wurk may therefore be considered a description: 'the land of the Kutbuntaura'.

At one point named the Avoca River by Thomas Mitchell, the river was named the Avon by Angus McMillan in circa 1840.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Reed, A. W. (1973). Place names of Australia. Frenchs Forest: Reed Books. p. 19. ISBN 0-589-50128-3.
^ ^a ^b Blake, Les (1977). Place names of Victoria. Adelaide: Rigby. p. 294. ISBN 0-7270-0250-3., cited in Bird (2006)
^ Bird, Eric (12 October 2006). "Place Names on the Coast of Victoria" (PDF). The Australian National Placename Survey (ANPS). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Avon River: 9616: Traditional Name: Dooyeedang". Vicnames. Government of Victoria. 12 May 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Avon River: 9616: Traditional Name: Dooyeedang". Vicnames. Government of Victoria. 12 August 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Avon River: 9616: Traditional Name: Kutbuntaura-wurk". Vicnames. Government of Victoria. 12 August 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ "Avon River: 9616". Vicnames. Government of Victoria. 2 May 1966. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Map of Avon River, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ "Alpine National Park: Our Mountain Heritage - around Heyfield, Licola and Dargo in the Wonnangatta - Moroka area" (PDF). Parks Victoria. Government of Victoria. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
^ Close, David Kyhber (2021). BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier: Sounding 1: Before 1840 and Sounding 2: Dispossession At Melbourne. BookPOD. p. 97-4. ISBN 9780992290405. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

External links

West Gippsland Regional Catchment Strategy (2013 - 2019) (PDF – 4MB). West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9805562-8-5.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
"Latrobe Catchment Ecosystem" (PDF). West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2011.

v t e Waterways of the West Gippsland catchment, Victoria, Australia
Rivers	Aberfeldy Ada (Baw Baw) Agnes Albert Avon (Wellington) Barkly Caledonia Carey Darby Dolodrook Franklin Jack (Wellington) Jordan Latrobe Little (Avon) Little Toorongo Loch Macalister Moe Morwell Perry Powlett Tanjil Tarra Tarwin Thomson Tidal Toorongo Turton Tyers Wellington
Creeks	Banksia Barry Ben Cruachan Bennison Berrys Blackall Boggy (Wellington) Bruthen Coalition Eaglehawk Fiddlers Fish Flynns Foster Freestone Glenmaggie Merrimans Middle (Latrobe) Monkey Narracan Nine Mile (South Gippsland) Rainbow Rintoul Screw Shady (Baw Baw) Traralgon Waterhole Wilkur Valencia
Lakes	Blue Rock Lake Lake Glenmaggie Gippsland Lakes Lake Coleman Lake Reeve Lake Wellington Thomson Reservoir
Other	Thomson River Diversion Tunnel
Rivers of Victoria Lakes of Victoria West Gippsland catchment

Rivers of Victoria

Rivers that flow towards the coast

Tasman Sea / Bass Strait

East Gippsland catchment	Ada (East Gippsland) Arte Back Lake Barracoota Bemm Bendoc Benedore Berrima Betka Big (Brodribb) Bonang Brodribb Buchan Cann Cann River East Combienbar Lake Corringle Crooked Lake Curlip Dargo Deddick Delegate Dry Errinundra Genoa Gippsland Lakes Lake King Lake Victoria (East Gippsland) Goolengook Hartland Humffray Ingeegoodbee Jack (East Gippsland) Little (Moroka) Little (Snowy River NP) Little (Sydenham Inlet) Little (Tambo) Little Arte Little Dargo Little Goolengook Little Yalmy McKenzie Mitchell Moroka Mueller Murrindal Nicholson Queensborough Red Rich Rocky Rodger Saint Patricks Snowy Suggan Buggan Tambo Thurra Timbarra Lake Tyers Wallagaraugh Wentworth Wingan Wongungarra Wonnangatta Yalmy Yeerung
West Gippsland catchment	Aberfeldy Ada (Baw Baw) Agnes Albert Avon (Wellington) Barkly Caledonia Carey Darby Dolodrook Franklin Gippsland Lakes Lake Coleman Lake Reeve Lake Wellington Lake Glenmaggie Jack (Wellington) Jordan Latrobe Little (Avon) Little Toorongo Loch Macalister Moe Morwell Perry Powlett Tanjil Tarra Tarwin Thomson Thomson Reservoir Tidal Toorongo Turton Tyers Wellington
Melbourne Water catchment	Bass Bunyip Dandenong Don Lang Lang Lerderderg Little (Greater Geelong) Little Bass Little Lang Lang Little Yarra Maribyrnong O'Shannassy Patterson Plenty Tarago The Old Watts Werribee Yarra
Corangamite catchment	Aire Anglesea Barham Barwon Calder Carlisle Lake Connewarre Lake Corangamite Cumberland Curdies Elliott Erskine Ford Geary Gellibrand Grey Johanna Kennet Leigh Little Aire Lake Martin Moorabool Parker St George Sherbrook Woady Yaloak Wye Yarrowee

Great Australian Bight

Glenelg Hopkins catchment	Lake Bolac Lake Burrumbeet Chetwynd Crawford Dundas Eumeralla Fitzroy Glenelg Hopkins Merri Moyne Shaw Stokes Surrey Wando Wannon

Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin

North–East catchment	Big (Mitta Mitta) Buckland Buffalo Bundara Catherine Cobungra Dandongadale Dart Lake Dartmouth Gibbo Lake Hume Kiewa King Mitta Mitta Murray Ovens Rose Victoria
Goulburn Broken catchment	Acheron Big (Goulburn) Black Broken Delatite Lake Eildon Goulburn Goulburn Weir Howqua Jamieson Little (Cathedral Range) Little Rubicon Murray Murrindindi Royston Rubicon Steavenson Taggerty Taponga Torbreck Yea
North–Central catchment	Avoca Campaspe Cairn Curran Reservoir Coliban Lake Eppalock Laanecoorie Reservoir Little Coliban Little Murray Loddon Murray
Mallee catchment	Lindsay Murray

Rivers that drain inland

North–Central catchment	Avon (Grampians) Lake Buloke Richardson
Wimmera catchment	Lake Albacutya Lake Hindmarsh MacKenzie Wimmera

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