Billabong Creek

Billabong Creek

Billabong Creek is a creek in the Riverina region in New South Wales, Australia. The creek is part of the Murray-Darling River system. It is held to be the longest creek in New South Wales.

The creek headwaters are east of Holbrook in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range and from there it flows in a generally easterly direction across the flat Riverina plain.

It passes through the towns of
*Morven
*Culcairn, (where it lends its name to the local High School)
*Walbundrie
*Rand
*Jerilderie
*Conargo
*Wanganellabefore emptying into the Edward River at Moulamein, New South Wales.

External links

[http://www.mwwg.org.au/mapping.php Map of the Billabong Creek] NSW Murray Wetlands Working Group


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