Burra Creek is a stream in South Australia rising in the northern
Mount Lofty Ranges
The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...
, flowing generally southwards and eastwards to join the
River Murray
The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...
at
Morgan.
Course and features
The stream rises near
Hallett in the northern
Mount Lofty Ranges
The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...
and flows generally southwards through the township of
Burra to the Burra Gorge near
Worlds End at which point the course changes to flow generally eastwards. The course then passes through very sparsely populated pastoral lands including the Burra Creek Plain (in the vicinity of the historic locality of
Maude) before meeting the River Murray about upstream from the Morgan ferry crossing.
See also
*
List of rivers of South Australia
*
Hundred of Kooringa
References
Rivers of South Australia
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