Estuaries of Australia are features of the
Australian coastline. They are linked to tides, river mouths and coastal features and conditions. In many cases the features of estuaries are also named ''inlets''.
Types
The separation of the types is related to the process based classification scheme where the energy sources define the group
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Tide-dominated delta - River energy
Burdekin River
The Burdekin River is a river located in North and Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the northern slopes of Boulder Mountain at Valley of Lagoons, part of the western slope of the Seaview Range, and flows into the Coral Sea a ...
in Queensland and Macarthur River NT
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Wave-dominated delta - River energy
Manning River
Manning River (Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and trained mature wave dominated barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia. It is the only double delta river in the ...
(NSW) and
Yarra River
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, ( Kulin languages: ''Berrern'', ''Birr-arrung'', ''Bay-ray-rung'', ''Birarang'', ''Birrarung'', and ''Wongete'') is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia.
The lower s ...
(Vic)
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Tide-dominated estuary - Tide energy a good example is
Ord River
The Ord River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The river's catchment covers .
The lower Ord River and the conjunction with Cambridge Gulf create the most northern estuarine environment in Western Australia.
The Ord ...
(WA) and
Broad Sound (Queensland)
Broad Sound is a large bay on the east coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland, northwest of the state capital, Brisbane. It is about long and across at its widest point. The Torilla Peninsula forms the eastern side of the bay; Shoa ...
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Wave-dominated estuary - Wave energy - good example
Peel Inlet
The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System ( nys, Djilba) is a natural estuarine system that lies roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and south of the town of Mandurah.
The strip of land between the Indian Ocean and the estuarine system c ...
Western Australia and
Lake Illawarra
Lake Illawarra ( Aboriginal Tharawal language: various adaptions of ''Elouera'', ''Eloura'', or ''Allowrie''; ''Illa'', ''Wurra'', or ''Warra'' meaning pleasant place near the sea, or, high place near the sea, or, white clay mountain), is an ope ...
NSW.
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Tidal flat/creek - Tide energy Good enough Bay (WA) and Moonlight Creek (QLD)
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Strandplain (and coastal lagoons) - Wave energy - good example coastal lagoon
Irwin Inlet
Irwin Inlet is an inlet in the located on the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
It was also known as Quarram Inlet.
The inlet receives water from two main sources, Bow River of the north west and Kent River to the north east. The inl ...
WA, strandplain Mooball Creek NSW.
Regions
The coastal regions of Australia are determined into ''estuary drainage basins''
* Tasmania -
* Temperate East - Tweed River to East Gippsland - wave dominated coast
* Subtropical east -
* GBR - Dry Tropics -
* GBR - Wet Tropics -
* Gulf of Carpentaria -
* Top End -
* Kimberley -
* Pilbara -
* South West -
* Gulfs - Gulf St Vincent to Spencer Gulf - wave dominated in south, tidal in northern parts
* Bass Strait - Mallacoota Inlet to Lower Lakes - wave dominated and coastal lagoons
See also
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Estuaries of Western Australia
The estuaries of Western Australia (also known as the Inlets of Western Australia) are located along the coastline of Western Australia.
The coastline can be considered in three main sections: south, west, and Kimberley. Some estuarine features ...
Notes
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Coastline of Australia