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A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from which water drains into those channels, and is ...
Endorheic basins of Australia (2 C, 3 P) L. ... Pages in category "Drainage basins of Australia" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Lake Eyre basin (/ ɛər / AIR) is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia.It is the largest endorheic basin in Australia and amongst the largest in the world, covering about 1,200,000 square kilometres (463,323 sq mi), including much of inland Queensland, large portions of South Australia and the Northern Territory, and a part of western New South Wales.
The basin covers 450,705 km 2 across 46 river catchments. [1] It is the seventh largest out of twelve separate drainage divisions covering Mainland Australia . [ 2 ] Just under one half of all Australian freshwater species are found in the north east coast division.
The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) [1] of Australia is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, extending over 1,700,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi). Measured water temperatures range from 30 to 100 °C (86 to 212 °F).
It includes drainage basins which do not flow to the ocean (endorheic basins). It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention). The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to ...
The Bulloo-Bancannia drainage basin or Cooper Creek–Bulloo River Basin [1] is a Level 2 drainage basin that covers part of western Queensland and New South Wales.It was recognised by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO as a subdivision of the Lake Eyre basin in the 2012 Australian Water Resources Assessment.
The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river. The Basin, which includes six of Australia's seven ...