The Breakfast Creek (
Aboriginal: ''Barrambin'') is a small
urban stream
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that is a
tributary
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of the
Brisbane River
The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Go ...
, located in suburban
Brisbane
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in the
South East
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region of
Queensland
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,
Australia
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.
Course and features
Rising as the
Enoggera Creek
Enoggera Creek is a creek which flows through the City of Brisbane in South-East Queensland, Australia.
Geography
Enoggera Creek rises in the suburb of Enoggera Reservoir on the D'Aguilar Range and flows into the Brisbane River (becoming B ...
that drains the
D'Aguilar Range
The D'Aguilar Range is a mountain range near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The town of Dayboro, Queensland, Dayboro is situated on the lower foothills midway along the range and the Sunshine Coast Hinterland town of Mooloolah, Queensland, ...
in the
D'Aguilar National Park
D'Aguilar National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It contains the D'Aguilar Range and is located along the northwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area. The park is traversed by the winding scenic Mount Nebo Road and Mount Glor ...
, Breakfast Creek forms near where it flows a short meandering course of before reaching its
confluence
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with the Brisbane River at
Newstead, next to
Newstead Park
Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence and is located on the Breakfast Creek bank of the Brisbane River, in the northern Brisbane suburb of Newstead, in Queensland, Australia.Trent Dalton, "Grand residence", ''Brisbane News'' ...
. Travelling up the Brisbane River the creek is the first to join the river on its northern banks.
The
heritage-listed
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Breakfast Creek Hotel is located near the confluence with the Brisbane River and is known for serving
XXXX beer exclusively from wooden barrels.
The shorter race in the annual
Bridge to Brisbane
Bridge to Brisbane is an annual long-distance fun run over a distance of or held in Brisbane, Australia in August.
The first race occurred in 1997 with fewer than 5000 entrants and each year the event raises funds for charity. 2007 saw 24,35 ...
fun run starts at the Breakfast Creek bridge.
History
John Oxley
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828)
was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as Surveyor General of New South Wales and is perhaps best known for his two exp ...
and
Allan Cunningham met members of an aboriginal clan at the mouth of the creek in 1824. After they had breakfast at the site minor conflict with the aboriginals arose after one of them grabbed Oxley's hat. Oxley named the waterway in remembrance of the incident.
An important Aboriginal camping ground occupied the Breakfast Creek / area until it was broken up by police raids in the 1860s. The camp was one of the major sources from which local Aboriginal people supplied the Moreton Bay colony with fish. It was also where Aboriginal leader Dalaipi spoke his famous 'Indictments' which were published in the ''
Moreton Bay Courier Moreton may refer to:
People Given name
* Moreton John Wheatley (1837–1916), British Army officer and Bailiff of the Royal Parks
Surname
* Alice Bertha Moreton (1901–1977), English sculptor, draughtsman and artist
* Andrew Moreton, a ...
'' in 1858.
One of the white first settlers on the creek was
Patrick Leslie
Patrick Leslie (25 September 1815 – 12 August 1881) was a Scottish settler in Australia. Leslie and his two brothers (Walter and George) were the first to settle on the Darling Downs, and he was the first person to buy land in Warwick.
...
who in 1845 built the still-standing Newstead House. Brisbane's
Cantonese
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community, who had established businesses in
Fortitude Valley
Fortitude Valley (often called "The Valley" by local residents) is an inner suburb of the City of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. In the , Fortitude Valley had a population of 9,708 people. The suburb features two pedestr ...
and built the
Temple of the Holy Triad in 1886, settled in the flats around Breakfast Creek and Eagle Farm.
During dry times in the early colony of Moreton Bay, when water from the Roma Street reservoir was depleted, supplies were carted from Breakfast Creek.
Various streets close to Breakfast Creek were affected by Brisbane floods in
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
,
1974
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and in
2011
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.
Bridges
A number of floods destroyed early bridges across the creek. The first permanent bridge was built in 1858 using
ironbark
Ironbark is a common name of a number of species in three taxonomic groups within the genus ''Eucalyptus'' that have dark, deeply furrowed bark.
Instead of being shed annually as in many of the other species of ''Eucalyptus'', the dead bark accu ...
.
As the timber of the bridge eroded, a second metal bridge was built in 1889. As traffic levels over the bridge increased, it became necessary to build a third larger concrete bridge in 1958, which stands to this day (2017).
Remnants of the second bridge can still be seen and are listed on the
Brisbane Heritage Register
The Brisbane Heritage Register is a heritage register containing a list of culturally-significant places within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovere ...
.
A new rail bridge as part of
Cross River Rail
Cross River Rail is an underground railway project through central Brisbane, which is, , under construction. Cross River Rail will see the development of a new rail line underneath Brisbane River, and the redevelopment of a number of stations ...
is due for operation by 2025.
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Gallery
File:Breakfast Creek Hotel.JPG, The Breakfast Creek Hotel
File:StateLibQld 1 109132 Flood waters at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, Brisbane, 1893.jpg, Flood waters at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, Brisbane, 1893
File:StateLibQld 1 239501 Bridge across Breakfast Creek, Brisbane.jpg, The 1858 ironbark bridge across Breakfast Creek, circa 1875
File:StateLibQld 1 104548 Breakfast Creek Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1889.jpg, The 1889 metal bridge, circa 1889
File:Breakfast Creek Bridge.JPG, The 1958 concrete bridge
See also
*
List of rivers of Queensland
This is a list of rivers of Australia. Rivers are ordered alphabetically, by state. The same river may be found in more than one state as many rivers cross state borders.
Longest rivers nationally
Longest river by state or territory
Althoug ...
References
External links
University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Breakfast Creek
{{Rivers of Queensland
Tributaries of the Brisbane River
Rivers of Brisbane