Cowies Creek is a
creek
A creek in North America and elsewhere, such as Australia, is a stream that is usually smaller than a river. In the British Isles it is a small tidal inlet.
Creek may also refer to:
People
* Creek people, also known as Muscogee, Native Americans
...
flowing through the northern suburbs of
Geelong, Victoria
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, a ...
,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
. It rises in wetlands in
Moorabool
Moorabool is a bounded rural locality of the City of Greater Geelong local government area in Victoria, Australia.
History
Moorabool Post Office opened on 1 October 1861 and closed in 1960.
In 2021, the Victorian Big Battery began operati ...
and
debouch
In hydrology, a debouch (or debouche) is a place where runoff from a small, confined space discharges into a larger, broader body of water. The word is derived from the French verb ''déboucher'' (), which means "to unblock, to clear". The term ...
es at Corio Quay,
Corio Bay
Corio Bay is one of numerous internal bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. The nearby suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.
Etymology
When Hamilton Hume and Willi ...
. After 1909, the Geelong Harbour Trust excavated the mouth of Cowies Creek to create Corio Quay.
Rivers of Victoria (Australia)
Corangamite catchment
Rivers of Barwon South West (region)
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