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This category list articles on rivers in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. Pages in category "Rivers of Adelaide" The following 14 pages are in this category, out ...
The river in summer at base of the Adelaide Hills, Athelstone. At the time of European settlement the river was a summertime chain of waterholes bounded by large gum trees. Flowing through the area where the city of Adelaide is sited the river was sometimes invisible beneath its gravel stream bed.
Rivers of New South Wales lists all rivers below, grouped according to whether the river flows towards the coast or flow inland, and grouped according to their respective catchment and sub-catchment. Where shown in italics , the watercourse is a creek, rivulet, brook, or similar.
Rivers of Adelaide (14 P) K. Rivers of Kangaroo Island (9 P) Pages in category "Rivers of South Australia" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
As the river flows down from the Adelaide Hills over the Para fault escarpment, it has formed a large alluvial fan on which Salisbury is built. The river is narrow and winding, formerly flooded in heavy rain and rarely reaches its sea outlet. Over time the river has been widened and levees added to reduce this flooding.
Onkaparinga River at the end of Sundews River Hike. 4 hr loop, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) loop (Gate 6). This rocky trail descends steeply from the Sundews Lookout to the bottom of the gorge, and then follows the river downstream for a short distance before returning up the steep slopes of the gorge to the ridge and then the car park.
The river descends 151 metres (495 ft) over its 238-kilometre (148 mi) course. [1] The catchment area of the river is 7,640 square kilometres (2,950 sq mi). [2] The Adelaide River is crossed by both the Stuart Highway, adjacent to the township of Adelaide River, and the Arnhem Highway near Humpty Doo.
Horner's Bridge, the first bridge to be constructed over the river in 1866, (photo taken 2007). The first inhabitants of the greater Adelaide area, the Kaurna people, referred to Sturt River as Warri Parri, or 'the windy place by the river'. [2] They used it as a movement corridor between the Adelaide Hills and the sea.
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