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The Yarriambiack Creek, an inland intermittent watercourse of the
The Yarriambiack Creek is a
Wimmera
The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Aust ...
catchment, is located in the Wimmera
The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Aust ...
region of the Australian state of Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
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. Rising on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs roug ...
, the Yarriambiack Creek flows generally north and drains into Lake Coorong
Lake Coorong is an eutrophic lake located in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia. The lake is located adjacent to the township of . After more than a decade of drought, in early 2011 the lake filled as a result of flooding in the ...
, one of a series of ephemeral lakes, northeast of .
Name
The name of the creek is thought to derive from ''Jarambuik'', the name of a sub-group of the indigenousWotjobaluk people
The Wotjobaluk are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria. They are closely related to the Wergaia people.
Language
R. H. Mathews supplied a brief analysis of the Wotjobaluk language (now known as Wergaia), describing what he ...
; also once spelt Yarriambiac, Yarramberger and Yarrambeak.
Location and features
The Yarriambiack Creek is a distributary
A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributary ...
of the Wimmera River and leaves the river near Drung Drung, approximately east of .
The watercourse flows northwards through and empties into Lake Coorong just east of . The flow of the watercourse is intermittent and depends almost entirely on the level of the Wimmera River. After not flowing for most of the previous 15 years, it flooded in September 2010 and January 2011. Water was released from the Wimmera River in 2012 and flowed through the creek and ended in Warracknabeal. There are a number of weirs built along the creek to hold water. The Yarriambiack Creek descends over its course
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.
At Warracknabeal, , and Hopetoun there are picnic spots, camping areas, gardens and walking trails.
The creek is crossed by the Henty Highway at multiple points between Warracknabeal and Hopetoun.
See also
*References
Mallee catchment Wimmera catchment Rivers of Grampians (region) Wimmera Distributaries {{VictoriaAU-river-stub