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In Australian English, a billabong (/ ˈ b ɪ l ə b ɒ ŋ / BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek , but other types of small lakes , ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs.
Anbangbang Billabong lies in the shadow of Burrunggui (Nourlangie Rock) within Kakadu National Park and is a good place to view a wide range of wildlife. Large numbers of waterfowl and wading birds inhabit the billabong and many wallabies can be found grazing around the water's edge.
The Billabong Sanctuary is an 11-hectare (27-acre) wildlife sanctuary in Nome, 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. [3] Animals
Bunyip (1935), by Gerald Markham Lewis, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.. The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic (there are no reports of the creature being sighted on land), [11] [a] inhabiting lakes, rivers, [12] swamps, lagoons, billabongs, [6] creeks, waterholes, [13 ...
Billabong Zoo is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) wildlife park and koala breeding centre located in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1986, and features a wide variety of Australian and exotic animals.
The finely layered fossiliferous strata is associated with permanent water, perhaps an oxbow lake, in a mesic rainforest, habitat that once dominated the continent. At the time of deposition of the fossil strata, from 16 to 11 million years ago, the site was a slow moving or still water body, perhaps a billabong. Along with fish, the fossilised ...
A bdelloid rotifer similar to Adineta ricciae. Adineta ricciae is a microscopic invertebrate that can grow to a length of about 0.2 millimetres (0.008 in). It has a retractable head with two pigmented, front-facing eyes, a mouth aperture and a corona of cilia.
The Yanga National Park is a newly formed national park, located near the township of Balranald in south- western New South Wales. [1] It covers an area of 66,734 hectares (164,900 acres) which includes 1,932 hectares (4,770 acres) of Yanga Nature Reserve, [1] and has a frontage of 170 kilometres (110 mi) on the Murrumbidgee River.
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